 According to Cy Feuer, Hammerstein privately blamed him and Martin, telling them, "We believed your pitch and we went and did something we were never cut out to do and we should never have done it.According to author Frederick Nolan, who chronicled the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein, "Pipe Dream" "cost them a fortune".Rodgers later stated it was the only one of their works he truly disliked; that if you start with a bad idea, everything is marred by that