Editing Rodgers and Hart (section)

== Analysis ==
''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' devoted a cover story to Rodgers and Hart on September 26, 1938. The magazine said that their success "rests on a commercial instinct that most of their rivals have apparently ignored". The article also said their "spirit of adventure." "As Rodgers and Hart see it, what was killing musicomedy was its sameness, its tameness, its eternal rhyming of June with moon."<ref>Block, p. 43</ref><ref>{{cite magazine | url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,788806,00.html | title=Theater: The Boys from Columbia | magazine=Time | date=September 26, 1938 }}</ref>

Their songs have long been favorites of cabaret singers and jazz artists. [[Ella Fitzgerald]] recorded ''[[Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook]]'' and [[Andrea Marcovicci]] based one of her cabaret acts entirely on Rodgers and Hart songs.<ref>Connema, Richard.[http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/sanfran/s928.html Review, The Incomparable Andrea Marcovicci Sings Rodgers & Hart] talkinbroadway.com, August 7, 2007</ref>

In their era musicals were revue-like and librettos were little more than excuses for comic turns and music cues. Rodgers and Hart tried to raise the standard of the musical form in general. ''[[A Connecticut Yankee (musical)|A Connecticut Yankee]]'' (1927) was based on [[Mark Twain]]'s novel ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]'' and ''[[The Boys From Syracuse]]'' (1938) on [[William Shakespeare]]'s ''[[The Comedy of Errors]].'' They used dance significantly in their work, using the ballets of [[George Balanchine]].<ref>Everett, p. 754</ref>