| re: 'Oklahoma!' (with spoilers) |
| Last Edit: WaymanWong 09:46 pm EDT 07/14/23 |
| Posted by: WaymanWong 09:39 pm EDT 07/14/23 |
| In reply to: re: Really? - Chromolume 10:39 am EDT 07/14/23 |
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''Many people will probably come having no idea this isn't ... the show as written.''
Another example is the recent revival of ''Oklahoma!'' It might've been a critics' darling on Broadway, but it wasn't such a crowd-pleaser on the road.
Audiences were expecting the sunny, warm Rodgers & Hammerstein classic they knew; instead, they got Daniel Fish's dark & idiosyncratic direction.
Nothing prepared them for ''Pore Jud Is Daid'' in the dark; a dream ballet turned into a rock dance solo; Curly shooting Jud to death, point-blank, etc.
When I saw the tour, there were a number of walkouts; the applause was tepid, and others weren't OK with this revisionist ''Oklahoma!''
Christopher Bannow, who played Jud on the tour, wrote an essay for Howlround.com about the negative feedback the cast encountered. |
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Howlround.com: Surviving in the States: Audience Rejection on the Road With 'Oklahoma!' |
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