Oklahoma! (1999) on Netflix
NR19992h 57mMusicRomanceWestern
Farm girl Laurey Williams is courted by cowboy Curly McLain and by Jud Fry, the farmhand she fears. She accepts Jud's invitation to a box social to spite Curly.
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Plot summary
In Oklahoma Territory in 1906, farm girl Laurey Williams is courted by cowboy Curly McLain and by Jud Fry, a farmhand she fears. Curly asks her to the box social, where the women's lunch baskets are auctioned and each buyer eats with the woman who packed the basket, but she refuses because he waited too long to ask. Jud asks her as well, and she accepts to spite Curly. Curly says he has hired a surrey with the fringe on top, then tells her he made it up. Cowboy Will Parker returns from Kansas City and shows off souvenirs bought with the fifty dollars he won at the fair, money that Ado Annie's father, Andrew Carnes, has set as the price of marrying her. Ado Annie has spent time with Ali Hakim, a Persian peddler.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Oklahoma! (1999)
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- When the original West End production traveled to Manchester for its pre-London run, the ship carrying the cast, scenery and costumes ran aground on a sandbank off Southampton, delaying the opening at the Opera House by a day in April 1947.
- Ali Stroker won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical as Ado Annie in the 2019 Broadway revival of Oklahoma!, becoming the first wheelchair user to win a Tony.
- Theatre Guild codirector Theresa Helburn wanted Shirley Temple as Laurey and Groucho Marx as Ali Hakim, but Rodgers and Hammerstein, backed by director Rouben Mamoulian, insisted on dramatically appropriate performers, so the production opened with no stars.
- Lorenz Hart lost interest in writing the show, finding the farmers and cowhands of Green Grow the Lilacs corny and preferring urbane material; consumed by alcoholism, he went to Mexico and told Rodgers that Oscar Hammerstein II would make a good new collaborator.
- The original production ran for 2,212 performances, closing on May 29, 1948, and its Broadway record of over five years stood until My Fair Lady in 1956.
- Plans to bring a London production of Oklahoma! to Broadway with its London cast were thwarted by Actors' Equity, which insisted that American actors be cast, so a U.S. cast was chosen instead.
- The success of the original Oklahoma! cast album set a precedent for original cast recordings of Broadway musicals, which became essential to a show's dissemination and endurance in popular culture.
