Thanks to ArianaGrande's Grammy-nominated '7 Rings' and the revival of 'Oklahoma,' the music of Rodgers & Hammerstein is having a moment
Jaws dropped when it was revealed that the late musical theater titans Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were granted 90% of the songwriting royalties on “7 Rings,”’s 2019 No. 1 hit. The dominant motif of Grande’s song is taken from “My Favorite Things,” the cornerstone of R&H’s 1959 musical “The Sound of Music”; the eight modern songwriters who created lyrics and other elements split the remaining 10%.
Eva Price, who produced the midtown Manhattan production, says: “What’s been really interesting, and frankly educational, has been the process of artistic influence and involvement from R&H since the Bard College production [in 2015]. It’s been not prescriptive but more advisory, [with] more historical context.”
Rodgers and Hammerstein created their organization in 1943 to publish their work and license the duo’s shows. They also acquired musicals and other songwriters’ material; the organization has almost 400 shows and the works of such writers as Irving Berlin and Lin-Manuel Miranda .
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