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Who were Richard Rodgers’s main collaborators?

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American composer Richard Rodgers’s main collaborators were librettists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. Rodgers’s work with Hart includes the musicals Babes in Arms (1937) and Pal Joey (1940). With Hammerstein, Rodgers produced the musicals Oklahoma! (1943), South Pacific (1949), The King and I (1951), and The Sound of Music (1959).