CANDLELIGHT DINNER PLAYHOUSE | Rodger's & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!

Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!
MARCH 17, 2012 - JUNE 3, 2012

Music by RICHARD RODGERS
Book by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Original Dances by AGNES DE MILLE
Based on the play, "Green Grow the Lilacs" by Lynn Riggs

[RATED PG] for Mild Theatrical Violence

Rodger's & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant, OKLAHOMA!

"Still the Great American Musical!" - New York Times, 2002

"A masterpiece." - New York Post, 1999

"A landmark of 20th century theater, it remains a defining event of American culture." - Houston Chronicle

"A truthful, touching and gripping drama about growing up and falling in love." - London Daily Mail, 1998

WINNER! 1944 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

WINNER! New York Drama League Award for 'Best Revival of a Musical'

WINNER! Seven 2002 Tony Awards including 'Best Revival of a Musical'

Additional performances available for this show