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They created a string of popular Broadway musicals in the 1940s and 1950s, starting what is considered the "golden age" of musical theater. Five of their Broadway shows, Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music, were outstanding successes, as was the television broadcast of Cinderella.
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Even though he grew up in a very musical family, Oscar’s grandfather desperately wanted him to do anything other than theatre. So, he decided to be a lawyer. He attended Columbia University, in New York, as a law student; however, he couldn’t stay away from the stage. He began acting in the school’s Varsity Shows which were very similar to the Vaudeville acts his family had done.
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