View the production credits for "The Great American Songbook."

"Porgy," the opera by Gershwin, nearly became "Porgy," the musical comedy by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II.

In 1938, TIME magazine wrote: "As Rodgers and Hart see it, what was killing music comedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon."

The American movie musical transformed Hollywood into a Mecca for the biggest singing stars and leading songwriters of the '30s, '40s, and '50s.

View the production credits for "Kiss Me, Kate."

Learn more about the songs from "Kiss Me, Kate."

Cole Porter's 1948 score was his major effort at an "integrated" musical in the wake of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel."

The first Broadway revival in nearly 50 years of the musical comedy masterpiece by composer Cole Porter and authors Sam and Bella Spewack.