| re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road (with Spoilers!) |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 07:29 pm EDT 04/05/23 |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 07:26 pm EDT 04/05/23 |
| In reply to: re: “Oklahoma!”: Audience Rejection On the Road. - AlanScott 06:26 pm EDT 04/05/23 |
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Fish's idiosyncratic direction goes beyond some changes in the dialogue.
Spoilers ahead! ... Curly and Jud sing ''Poor Jud Is Daid'' in pitch darkness as a live camera shows giant closeups of their faces on the wall.
Laurey's dream ballet has been turned into a solo where a dancer races around the stage, accompanied by a screaming rock guitar.
And Jud comes to the wedding and gifts Curly a gun. Curly directly shoots him, and Curly and Laurey are splattered with Jud's blood.
Needless to say, quite a departure from the original where Curly and Jud get into a knife fight, and Jud dies after falling on his knife.
There's no way road audiences could've been prepared for this. ... Yup, this ain't your parents' ''Oklahoma!'' Nor mine. |
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