Do you know the locations where Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are set?

[AviatorTom]

Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II paired together for some of the best musicals of the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

How well do you now those musicals?

The poll contains seven (7) locations. Six (6) of them are locations where one of their musicals was set. One (1) does not.

Can you identify the odd one out?

Please vote in the poll, choosing the location that is not a location where a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was set.

The correct answer will be given in a few days (Sunday).

BONUS: Can you name the musical for each location?

Oklahoma

San Francisco

New York City

Siam (Thailand)

Tahiti

Salzburg Austria

US Pacific Northwest

Updates

1 mo

Let me clarify. The question refers to the location in the musical itself, not where it was filmed or where the stage was. Note that almost all of these were major films as well as performed on Broadway, The West End, and touring companies. High schools and colleges still perform them on stage.

Updates

1 mo

The odd one out is New York City. None of their plays were set in New York City.

Here are the locations and the musicals...
Oklahoma - Oklahoma
San Francisco - Flower Drum Song
Siam (Thailand) - The King and I
Tahiti - South Pacific
Salzburg Austria - The Sound of Music
US Pacific Northwest - Carousel

[SaoirseS]

I’m a bit confused by what you’re asking. I grew up watching old movie musicals, including most all of those by Rodger’s and Hammerstein.


Oklahoma was supposedly set in pre-statehood Oklahoma Territory, but was never shot on any Oklahoma location. It was shot in Arizona and on Hollywood sound stages.


Carousel was supposedly set in the Northeast U. S. (Maine I believe); filming included several locations in Maine.


South Pacific was supposedly set an an unnamed fictitious Island in the South Pacific, but was filmed in Hawaii. No, Bali Ha’i didn’t mean it was set near a Indonesia.


Flower Drum Song was set in Chinatown, San San Francisco. There were some exterior SF shots but it was filmed mostly on Hollywood sound stages.


Sound of Music takes place in Salzburg, Austria and was filmed mostly on location there.


The King and I was set in Siam (now Thailand) but I don’t think any of it was filmed on location there.


It looks like the Pacific Northwest is the odd one out. I don’t remember any Rodger’s and Hammerstein musical being set there.


Did I win anything?

[AviatorTom]

@SaoirseS Not yet. You missed one.

[SaoirseS]

Don’t remember anything R&H did that took place in New York City unless it was the televised Cinderella with Julie Andrews.

Tahiti looks a flyer too since South Pacific took place on a make believe island.

That’s the best I got.

[KostasKouvalis]

Sound of Music was not a Rogers and Hammerstein work. It was written by some Austrian guy. I saw a travel show that visited the guy's family

[SaoirseS]

Sound of Music was most certainly a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Although the Von Trapp family was real and the inspiration for the musical, Hammerstein wrote the libretto.

[SaoirseS]

Thanks for MHO. by the way, As mentioned Carousel was set in the Notheast (Maine), not the Pacific Northwest.

[Cidknee]

Oklahoma!
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The King and I
The Sound of Music
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I don't know the location part. I've not seen any of them since i was a kid.

[Cidknee]

I a skipped the Tahiti one.

[KostasKouvalis]

I know from watching "Family Guy" that at least one of them was SIAM

[AI Opinion]

Love this kind of classic musical trivia 😍

The odd one out is the location that isn’t tied to any Rodgers & Hammerstein show. Their famous settings are:
Oklahoma – “Oklahoma!”
New England coast – “Carousel”
Salzburg, Austria – “The Sound of Music”
Bangkok/Siam – “The King and I”
An island in the South Pacific – “South Pacific”
The American West (territory) – “Oklahoma!” again

So whichever option doesn’t match one of those is the fake. 🎭✨

[AviatorTom]

CAUTION AI personas are not always correct! 😎🙊🙉🙈

[exitseven]

I had a girlfroned that lived in Ok

[exitseven]

Ok;ahoma. I visited her often so I know the state pretty well.