| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. | |
| Posted by: Musicals54 10:16 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - PlazaBoy 01:31 am EDT 04/05/23 | |
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| This production of Oklahoma! was the realization of the show that was always there. Some have contended that it was unnecessary to highlight what was always there. That is a reasonable point of view, but I don't share it. Too many revivals are merely remounted from the original staging. Oklahoma! is a great piece of art. It has layers of meaning. From the get-go it was always about the creation of a lawless and racist state. "I'm not your Aunt Eller." is about as clear as clear can be. Anyone who thinks that the R&H shows are about sweetness and light have clearly watched them through rose colored glasses and sound distorting ear phones. So the people who were shocked by this Oklahoma! are so befuddled that their opinions don't matter. Death, Murder, Suicide, Racism, Sexism, Colonialism, ethnic melting are the very basis of their shows. The only show which can be seen as sentimental is The Sound of Music and that is the only one in which Hammerstein played no part in the writing of the book. And it is the book that can cloy. Guess who those anti-Oklahoma! audience members voted for. |
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