matthew morrison: he was the third generation in a family of theatrical producers. his grandfather oscar the first in opera, his father, willy, in vaudeville, his uncle arthur in operetta. oscar the second was blessed by genes and genius. he wrote the lyrics for over a thousand songs and the books for 45 operettas and musicals, many of them made into films, and still being performed today. no one changed theater history more than oscar hammerstein ii. oscar hammerstein ii: when a writer writes