BEDFORD MAGAZINE / March 2005 "GETTING TO KNOW YOU: Oscar Andy Hammerstein III" By Bonni Brodnick Oscar Andy Hammerstein III, painter, writer and Hammerstein family historian, truly has the muse -- just like his father, Jamie Hammerstein; his father’s father, Oscar Hammerstein II; and his father’s father’s father, Oscar Hammerstein I. A South Salem resident, Andy, who recently appeared in the PBS documentary series, “BROADWAY: The American Musical,” gives us a perspective on the 101st Anniversary of Broadway; how his grandfather, Oscar II, and his partner Richard Rodgers, changed the American theatrical and musical landscape with such masterworks as Oklahoma! and Carousel , the importance of a good libretto and the future of The Great White Way. ...
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