Picks and Pans Review: Rodgers & Hammerstein: the Sound of Movies

By Tom Gliatto

UPDATED 04/01/1996 at 01:00 AM EST • Originally published 04/01/1996 at 01:00 AM EST

A & E (Sun., April 7, 8 p.m. ET)

B

Watching this two-hour parade of musical highlights, you almost forget what a chore it can be sitting through the non-singing scenes of Carousel, South Pacific and other film versions of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classics. Here, the melodies are transportingly lyrical, the production values Technicolor lush.