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| re: "OKLAHOMA!" in CHICAGO (HUGE SPOILERS) -- DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS REVIVAL | |
| Last Edit: singleticket 07:51 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| Posted by: singleticket 07:47 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: "OKLAHOMA!" in CHICAGO (HUGE SPOILERS) -- DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS REVIVAL - BroadwayTonyJ 01:46 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
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| It's an open-and-shut case of not guilty on the grounds of self-defense. There is no open-and-shut case as the case is not tried in a court of law. It's decided largely by Judge Aunt Eller. Frontier justice as a way of tying up loose ends is a trope that runs through the musical particularly the shotgun wedding of Ado Annie. The original Lynn Riggs play leaves the question of Curly's possible repercussions with the law unanswered. Hammerstein added the community justice scene, you don't have to call it a kangeroo court if you don't want to. unlike the musical, the end of Green Grow The Lilacs is left rather undecided as to Curly's trial for accidentally killing farmhand Jeeter (renamed Jud Fry in the musical). I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I found Fish's addition to rise quite organically from the musical itself though it was indeed an addition. |
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| re: "OKLAHOMA!" in CHICAGO (HUGE SPOILERS) -- DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS REVIVAL | |
| Last Edit: BroadwayTonyJ 08:21 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| Posted by: BroadwayTonyJ 08:20 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
| In reply to: re: "OKLAHOMA!" in CHICAGO (HUGE SPOILERS) -- DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THIS REVIVAL - singleticket 07:47 pm EST 01/20/22 | |
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| Eller is not the judge. Her comment carries no weight. She just echoes Carnes' verdict. Under the circumstances I'm sure Carnes had the authority to set up a court wherever he deemed necessary. Curly would have been judged not guilty no matter where the trial took place. A technicality is not a miscarriage of justice. Hammerstein's named his play Oklahoma!. It's not the same as Riggs' play. Fish should have written or commissioned his own work if he felt so strongly about frontier justice. Instead he took a famous piece by an esteemed playwright like Hammerstein and totally distorted the original's intent for God knows what purpose. |
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