| I went to my bookcase and read(for the 1st time) the Samuel French paperback I purchased years ago. I think it could only be in acting, except for some emphases; In the smoke house scene between Curly and Jeeter(Jud), If some way it would seem Curly is c*ck-teasing Jeeter; There's also the shivaree, very gentle on OKLAHOMA! compared the one in the original play, where Laurey stands "in dumb misery"; The shivaree is very crude, threatening, and if it was staged so that the cowboys were more interested in removing Curly shirt(Which is stated in the stage directions), it could be staged as an explosion of repressed H, but in the text they are trying to humiliate BOTH Bride and groom. In other words, I don't see it in the text......If the Lilacs revival was done in Penn, where Young Mr S. lived near his Hammerstein neighbors, perhaps the staging showed latent H. |
