b'Mary Martin with children during production of the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, 1959 | U.S. Library of Congress | Public DomainThe Curtain Rises(part 1)The Entertainer & Social Reformer(part 2) Friday, Jan. 10, 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 17, 2 p.m. As Oscar quickly discovered, his familys legacy was a hugeBringing a new moral compass to Broadway, Oscars musicals act to follow. Never has success been more hard-won.contained strong social commentary. Indeed, each show in From untamed Vaudevillian wilds, Hammerstein achievedthe Rogers & Hammerstein cannon probe great challenges unprecedented poetic unity, starting by answering thefacing postwar America. Here, well go beyond the love songs publics craving for sentimentality. This led to his seismic shiftto explore his progressive principles that earned him unwanted with Show Boat, and later to Oklahoma! and South Pacificattention from the FBI. And yet, through it all, Hammerstein as the curtain rose on new worlds of social awareness.retains his sweetness and poetry in a unique blend that still moves us today . from storms endured, to mountains climbed.The Sound of Music was Rogers & Hammersteins final Broadway collaboration. 41'