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OklahomaOKLAHOMA
2003

Directed by: Lynda Clarkson
Choreographed by: Pat Sumner
Musical Director: Nic Parker
Production Design: Phil Sykes

Cast:
Laurey Williams: Lisa Kerr
Curly McLaine: James Dangerfield
Aunt Eller: Joanna Piancastelli
Ado Annie: Aimee Whelan
Will Parker: Oliver Ashworth
Ali Hakim: Shaun Couchman
OklahomaGertie Cummings: Rheagan Hendry
Andrew Cairns: Sam Parr
Jud Fry: Michael Holdsworth
Ike Skidmore: Jamie Bamber
Cord Elam: Alex Dangerfield
Fred: Ken Carter
Slim: Charles Mallinson
Kate: Stephanie Darkins
Vivian: Helen Rouse
Virginia: Sarah Keith
Ellen/Dream Laurey: Laura Brayne

Sam Auty, Jonathan Bamber, Jonathan Cooper, Sophie Cronin, Rachel Dangerfield, Sophie Evans, James Fisher, Abby Hesketh, Becky Hoyle, Isobel Mackenzie, Charlotte Mathews, Sophie Mathews, Caitlin McMillan, Howard Murphy, Tessa Perryman, Joseph Phillips, Philip Raymond, Lesley Rowlings, Hannah Shelstone, Dominic Stirling, Jenny Strachan, Rachel Strachan, Jamie Sumner, Lucie Sumner, Emily Wignall,

Performed at Lowther Pavilion, Lytham
November 2003

Oklahoma! is the first musical play written by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist/librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943.

OklahomaIt was a box-office smash and ran for a then unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation.

Originally entitled “Away We Go”, the musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, “Green Grow the Lilacs”. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farmer girl Laurey Williams.

Their love is challenged by Laurey's threatening farmhand, Jud Fry, and much of the play follows the tension generated by this conflict. This musical, epitomized the development of the "book musical", a musical play where the songs and dances were fully integrated into a well-made story with serious dramatic goals, which were able to evoke genuine emotions other than laughter…

OlkahomaIn addition, Oklahoma! features musical themes, or motifs, that recur throughout the work to connect the music and story more closely than any musical ever had before.

After the Success of “Pendragon” LATA felt we needed to try a well known show, what better show to choose than “Oklahoma!”