Letter from James "Chip" Northrup
'Oklahoma!' Really Good, but Could Be Tweaked
The Glimmerglass Festival production of “Oklahoma!” is a rollicking good show. As directed by Francesca Zambello, it captures all the energy and joy of Rodgers and Hammerstein's masterpiece. We enjoyed it immensely. Go see it before it sells out.
For anyone that has actually ever been to Oklahoma, there is one rather glaring omission. Based entirely on a Dust Bowl-era play about settlers, neither Rodgers nor Hammerstein had a clue about life on the prairie when they adapted the play as a musical. What they left out was a lot: Cherokees, Choctaws, and Comanches.
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