Banfield, Stephen. Jerome Kern (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).
———. Sondheim’s Broadway Musicals (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993).
Bennett, Robert Russell. Instrumentally Speaking (Melville, NY: Belwin-Mills, 1975).
———. “The Broadway Sound”: The Autobiography and Selected Essays of Robert Russell Bennett, ed. George J. Ferencz (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1999).
Block, Geoffrey. Enchanted Evenings: The Broadway Musical from Show Boat to Sondheim (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).
Bordman, Gerald. American Musical Comedy: From Adonis to Dreamgirls (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982).
Carter, Tim. Oklahoma!: The Making of an American Musical (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
Chapin, Ted. Interview with Terry Gross, Fresh Air, National Public Radio, Washington D.C., 17 February 2009.
Citron, Stephen. The Wordsmiths: Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and Alan Jay Lerner (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
Conrad, Jon. Correspondence with Ted Chapin, in appendix of Carousel full score, ed.
Bruce Pomahac (New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 2008), 611–30.
Engel, Lehman. Words with Music: Creating the Broadway Musical Libretto, updated and revised by Howard Kissel (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2006).
Fordin, Hugh. Getting to Know Him: A Biography of Oscar Hammerstein II (New York:
Random House, 1977).
Hammerstein II, Oscar. “Preface: A Kind of Grandfather,” in Sheean The Amazing Oscar Hammerstein: The Life and Exploits of an Impresario (London: Lowe and Brydone, 1956), xv–xx.
Hirsch, Foster. Harold Prince and the American Musical Theatre, revised and expanded edn. (Cambridge, 2005).
Hischak, Thomas. Boy Loses Girl: Broadwayʼs Librettists (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
———. Through the Screen Door: What Happened to the Broadway Musical when it Went to Hollywood (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2004).
Hyland, William G. Richard Rodgers (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998).
Jones, John Bush. Our Musicals, Ourselves: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2003).
Kirle, Bruce. Unfinished Show Business: Broadway Musicals as Works-in-Process (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005).
Knapp, Raymond. The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
———. The American Musical and the Performance of Personal Identity (Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2006).
Langner, Lawrence. “The Theatre Guild Presents Oklahoma! and Carousel,” in The Richard Rodgers Reader, ed. Geoffrey Block (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 112–24.
McMillin, Scott. The Musical as Drama (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2006).
Miller, Derek. “ ʻUnderneath the Groundʼ: Jud and the Community in Oklahoma!,”
Studies in Musical Theatre 2, no. 2 (2008): 163–74.
Miller, Jonathan. Subsequent Performances (New York: Elisabeth Sifton Books / Viking, 1986).
Mordden, Ethan. Beautiful Morninʼ: The Broadway Musical in the 1940s (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
———. “The Work That Changed the Form,” in The Richard Rodgers Reader, ed.
Geoffrey Block (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002), 105–12.
Most, Andrea. Making Americans: Jews and the Broadway Musical (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004).
Nolan, Frederick. The Sound of Their Music: The Story of Rodgers & Hammerstein (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002).
Patinkin, Sheldon. “No Legs, No Jokes, No Chance”: A History of the Americal Musical
Theater Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008).
Pomahac, Bruce. Interview with David Möschler, New York City, NY, 26 July 2009.
———. “Restoration Notes” in Carousel full score, ed. Bruce Pomahac (New York:
Williamson Music, Inc., 2008), 585–610.
Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1975).
Rosenberg, Bernard and Ernest Harburg. The Broadway Musical: Collaboration in Commerce and Art (New York: New York University Press, 1993).
Sears, Ann. “The Coming of the Musical Play: Rodgers and Hammerstein” in The Cambridge Companion to the Musical, ed. William A. Everett and Paul Laird (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Secrest, Meryle. Stephen Sondheim: A Life (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
———. Somewhere for Me: A Biography of Richard Rodgers (New York: Alfred A.
Knopf, 2001).
Sheean, Vincent. The Amazing Oscar Hammerstein: The Life and Exploits of an Impresario (London: Lowe and Brydone, 1956).
Suskin, Steven. The Sound of Broadway Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
Swain, Joseph. The Broadway Musical: A Critical and Musical Survey, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2002).
Swayne, Steve. How Sondheim Found His Sound (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005).
Wilk, Max. OK! The Story of Oklahoma! : A Celebration of Americaʼs Most Beloved Musical (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2002).
Woodruff, Paul. The Necessity of Theater: The Art of Watching and Being Watched (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).
Scores and Scripts
Molnár, Ferenc. Liliom. Translated and edited by Benjamin F. Glazer (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921).
Riggs, Lynn. Green Grow the Lilacs: A Play (Binghamton, NY: Vail-Ballou Press, 1931).
———. “Green Grow the Lilacs: A Play,” in Nine Modern American Plays, ed. Barrett H. Clark and William H. Davenport (New York: Appleton Century Crofts, 1951), 88–185.
Rodgers, Richard, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Carousel libretto, ed. Richard E.
Haggerty (New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 1975).
———. Carousel vocal score, ed. Albert Sirmay (New York: Williamson Music Co., 1945).
———. Carousel piano-conductor score, ed. Richard E. Haggerty (New York:
Williamson Music, Inc., 1978).
———. Carousel full score, ed. Bruce Pomahac (New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 2008)
———. “Oklahoma!,” in 6 Plays by Rodgers and Hammerstein (New York: Random House, 1955), 1–84.
———. Oklahoma! libretto, ed. Richard E. Haggerty (New York: Williamson Music, Inc., 1975).
———. Oklahoma! vocal score, ed. Albert Sirmay (New York: Williamson Music Co., 1943).
———. Oklahoma! piano-conductor score, ed. Richard E. Haggerty (New York:
Williamson Music, Inc., 1978).
Manuscripts and Collections
Carousel and By Jupiter piano vocal sheets and sketches, Folders 16–27, Box 3, Richard Rodgers Collection, processed by Mark Eden Horowitz (Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Carousel full scores, boxes 22, 26, 27, 28 from Don Walker Collection (Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Oscar Hammerstein II Collection, partially processed (Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Rouben Mamoulian Productions and Projects, cart of unprocessed materials prepared by Laura Kells (Rare Manuscripts, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.).
Audio and Video
Oklahoma!: Featuring members of the New York production (Alfred Drake / Joan
Roberts / Jay Blackton), MCA CD reissue 10798 (1943).
Carousel Featuring Members of the Original Cast (John Raitt / Jan Clayton / Joseph Littau), MCA CD reissue MCAD-10799 (1945).
Rodgers & Hammersteinʼs Oklahoma!, dir. Fred Zinneman (Gordon McCrae / Shirley Jones), Twentieth Century Fox Films DVD Reissue (1955).
From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture: Rodgers and Hammersteinʼs Oklahoma!
(Gordon McCrae / Shirley Jones / Jay Blackton), Angel CD reissue 64651 (1955).
Rodgers & Hammersteinʼs Carousel, dir. Henry King (Gordon McCrae / Shirly Jones), Twentieth Century Fox Films DVD Reissue (1956).
From the Soundtrack of the Motion Picture: Rodgers and Hammersteinʼs Carousel (Gordon McCrae / Shirley Jones / Alfred Newman), Angel CD Reissue 764692 (1956).
Broadway Cast Album: Rodgers and Hammersteinʼs Oklahoma! (Laurence Guittard / Christine Andreas / Jay Blackton), RCA CD RCD1-3572 (1980).
Carousel 1987 Studio Recording (Barbara Cook / Samuel Ramey / Paul Gemignani), MCA CD MCAD 6209 (1987).
Carousel 1994 Broadway Cast Recording (Michael Hayden / Sally Murphy / Audra McDonald), Angel CD CDQ 5 55199 2 4 (1994).
Royal National Theatre Production: Rodgers and Hammersteinʼs Oklahoma! (Hugh Jackman / Josefina Gabrielle / John Owen Edwards), First Night Cast CD 69 (1998).
Rodgers & Hammersteinʼs Oklahoma! dir. Trevor Nunn (Hugh Jackman / Maureen Lipman), Universal Pictures, UK DVD (2004).