Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! In Concert
Oscar Hammerstein
Oklahoma! - Complete Script and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical
by Oscar Hammerstein (Ii), Richard Rodgers, Lynn Riggs, Agnes de Mille
Awards & Recognition
Academy Award Drama Desk Award Olivier Award Pulitzer Prize Tony Award
Winner! 1944 Pulitzer Prize – Special Award Winner! Two 1956 Academy Awards, including Best Music Winner! 1993 Special Tony Award (50th Anniversary) Winner! Four 1999 Olivier Awards, including Outstanding Musical Production Nominee: Two 1980 Tony Awards Nominee: Eight 2002 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical Nominee: Seven 2002 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical Winner! Two 2019 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical Nominee: Eleven 2019 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Revival of a Musical Winner! Two 2023 Olivier Awards, including Best Musical Revival
Synopsis
Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today.
Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story.
Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road.
That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant Oklahoma!
Press Reviews
"★★★★★ “An absolute knockout!"
— The Telegraph
"★★★★ “A rip-snorting, chap-slapping, foot-stamping triumph!"
— Evening Standard
"A masterpiece...Rodgers & Hammerstein are truly up there with Eugene O'Neill as the great American theatre creators."
— New York Post
"If ever a show earned its exclamation point, it's this one!"
— Wall Street Journal
"There's nothing corny about this wonderful, fresh show. It's not just a classic American musical but—and this is the real surprise—a truthful, touching and gripping drama about growing up and falling in love, about dreams and nightmares."
— London Daily Mail
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Videos
Oklahoma! – Through Time and History
Publication
Publisher Applause Books
Year 2010
Binding Paperback
Edition Illustrated
Pages 134
Place New York
Language English
ISBN-13 9781423490562
ISBN-10 1423490568
LCCN 2010008575
LCC ML50.R67 O4 2010
DCC 782.1/40268
Oklahoma! - Complete Script and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical is a British play written by Oscar Hammerstein (Ii) and published by Applause Books in New York (2010).
Digital editions available on Amazon Kindle .
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