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IN 1943
"Oklahoma!" the first Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway collaboration, opens to rave reviews. It enchants wartime audiences and will run for 2,212 performances.
Hammerstein II successfully adapts Bizet's opera "Carmen" to an American setting in "Carmen Jones."
Lorenz Hart dies of pneumonia.
photo credits: The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and Gjon Mili/Getty Images
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