Lloyd-Webber sets eyes on The Sound of Music
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Lord Lloyd-Webber's interest in stretching his West End empire across the Atlantic is because The Rodgers and Hammerstein Organisation (R&H) represents his works in America, a position which gives him some leverage over the outcome. Included in it is a change of control clause, which allows him to take back his works from R&H, where a meaningful, but unspecified proportion of the group's turnover is represented.
R&H had been established more than 60 years ago as a producer for Rodgers and Hammerstein's own works, and it includes South Pacific, The King and I and Oklahoma! Oscar Hammerstein, the lyricist, died in 1960, and Richard Rodgers, the composer, in 1979.
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Story first published: Thursday, October 16, 2008, 15:26 [IST]
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