Donald Corren is an American Broadway and film actor and screenwriter, he created the role of which Mexican-American pianist and composer, best known as the accompanist to notably tone-deaf soprano Florence Foster Jenkins, in the 2005 Broadway production of "Souvenir"?
Donald Corren Donald Corren is an American Broadway and film actor and screenwriter. He created the role of Cosmé McMoon opposite Judy Kaye's Florence Foster Jenkins in the 2005 Broadway production of "Souvenir". He also starred on Broadway in "Torch Song Trilogy", for which he received awards from both the Los Angeles and San Francisco Drama Critics Circle while on tour. He appeared Off Broadway in "The Last Sunday in June", "Saturday Night", and "Tom Foolery". He played the recurring part of Medill for nine seasons on NBC's "Law & Order" and has also appeared on "Rescue Me", "", and "". Corren has also written for TV and corporate clients, including Martha Stewart's early weekly television shows and the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. Corren received his education at Juilliard.
Oscar Hammerstein II Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein II ( ; July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American librettist, theatrical producer, and (usually uncredited) theatre director of musicals for almost forty years. Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song. Many of his songs are standard repertoire for vocalist's and jazz musicians. He co-wrote 850 songs. Hammerstein was the lyricist and playwright in his partnerships; his collaborators wrote the music. Hammerstein collaborated with numerous composers, such as Jerome Kern, with whom he wrote "Show Boat", Vincent Youmans, Rudolf Friml, Richard A. Whiting and Sigmund Romberg; but he is best known for his collaborations with Richard Rodgers, as the duo Rodgers and Hammerstein which include "Oklahoma!", "Carousel", "South Pacific", "The King and I", and "The Sound of Music".