Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Youth Edition

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Youth Edition

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Youth Edition

Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Original Choreography by Agnes de Mille
Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Youth Edition

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!: Youth Edition

Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II

Original Choreography by Agnes de Mille
Based on the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs

Overview

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma: Youth Edition is a one-hour adaptation of the beloved musical, designed especially for young performers.

Rodgers & Hammerstein’s first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century, a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly, a charming cowboy, and Laurey, a feisty farm girl, to play out their love story. Their romantic journey, as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road, contrasts with the comic exploits of brazen Ado Annie and hapless Will Parker in a musical adventure embracing hope, determination and the promise of a new land.

In this adaptation for pre-high school students, the content has been edited to better suit younger attention spans, but all the elements that make this show a classic remain. You and your students will be enchanted by the timeless story and the dazzling score while learning about theatere and its production.

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Details

  • Genre: Adaptation (Literature), Period, Docudrama/History, Romantic Comedy
  • Time Period: 1900-1910, Wild West
  • Cast Attributes: Role(s) for Teen(s), Roles for Children, Strong Role for Leading Man (Star Vehicle), Strong Role for Leading Woman (Star Vehicle)
  • Target Audience: Appropriate for All Audiences

Authors

Richard Rodgers

Richard Rodgers' contribution to the musical theatre of his day was extraordinary, and his influence on the musical theatre of today and tomorrow is legendary. His career spanned more than six decades, his hits ranging from the silver screens of Hollywood to the bright light ...

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Oscar Hammerstein II

Oscar Hammerstein II was born on July 12, 1895 in New York City. His father, William, was a theatre manager and for many years director of Hammerstein's Victoria, the most popular vaudeville theatre of its day. His uncle, Arthur Hammerstein, was a successful Broadway producer ...

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Agnes de Mille

Although Agnes de Mille (1905-1993) seemed destined to perform on Broadway, since her paternal grandfather, father, and uncle, Cecil B. de Mille, were all successful writers and actors involved in the theater, she avoided the easy path to Great White Way. Instead, she struggl ...

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Lynn Riggs

Lynn Riggs was the author of Green Grow the Lilacs, originally produced by the Theatre Guild in 1931 and later used by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II as the basis for their musical Oklahoma!. The original play had a New York run of 64 performances, while its musical ...

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