| Seventy-five years ago this April Fool’s morning, a line of ticket buyers stretched down West 44th Street outside the St. James Theatre in Manhattan, and a policeman struggled to keep order at the box office. A new musical play had opened the night before and taken the town by storm. “Wonderful is the nearest adjective for this excursion,” this newspaper’s critic proclaimed, in a judgment almost universally shared from that day to this. The show was “Oklahoma!”... |
