‘A Grand Night for Singing’: Celebrating songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein at the Players’ Guild

Composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II were probably the most influential musical-theatre ...
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Born in Louisiana 77 Years Ago Today, the Country Rocker Who Stepped Out of His Legendary Father’s Shadow To Blaze His Own Path

On this day (May 26) in 1949, Randall Hank Williams was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He is better known as Hank Williams Jr. or Bocephus. In the early days of his career, he followed closely in the ...