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Oklahoma!
Musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein
Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! is a musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. Based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play Green Grow the Lilacs, it is set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, and tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box office hit and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Oscar-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Oklahoma! was Rodgers and Hammerstein's first pairing on a musical, and won a special Pulitzer Prize in 1944. This musical, building on the innovations of the earlier Show Boat, epitomized the development of the "book musical", a musical...
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