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Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs.
Set in Western Indian Territory just after the turn of the 20th Century, the spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the backdrop for the love story between Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a beautiful farm girl.
Aunt Eller is elected auctioneer for the coveted lunch hampers; the men will bid on individual boxed meals prepared by the town’s women. Will confronts Ali about his apparent engagement to Ado Annie and challenges the legitimacy of his love for her.
9 kwi 2019 · The final image of the musical is not the gleeful happy ending of a land on the verge of becoming a state, but the painful, blood-soaked reality of the white male privilege, toxic masculinity, injustice, and violence that hounds America’s history and present.
1 kwi 2018 · A subplot involves a boy-crazy woman named Ado Annie. She's engaged to one man, who doesn't want to marry her, while another man, Will Parker, desperately wants her to be his bride. Everything comes to a head at a big party in town.
They started their story with one of the most unexpected opening numbers in Broadway history. A song about the bright gold haze on an Oklahoman meadow, begun offstage and continued as a serenade by a bowlegged cowboy to a mature lady working away at a butter churn on her porch, may strike few people in the 21st century as revolutionary, but ...
15 paź 2022 · The experiment — which then developed into a fully-staged production at Bard in 2015, an off-Broadway run in 2018 and a Broadway transfer in 2019 — laid bare the text’s sexual tension, toxic ...
