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KDR "Oklahoma!"

Event Type
Performance
Sponsor
Campus Honors Program
Location
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Krannert Room and Tryon Festival Theater
Date
Nov 11, 2024   6:30 pm  
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Stage Director Sarah Wigley  
Musical Director Michael Tilley   
Dramaturg Jeffrey Magee
Choreographer Whitney Havice
Presentation:  6:30 – 7:15 p.m., Krannert Room
Performance: begins at 7:30 p.m., Tryon Festival Theatre

Oklahoma!, the first musical written by the duo Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opened on Broadway in March 1943, ran for a then-unprecedented 2,212 performances, and earned a special Pulitzer Prize. It later enjoyed an Oscar-winning 1955 film adaptation, five Broadway revivals to 2020, and countless high-school, collegiate, community, regional, and international productions. It tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and farmhand Jud Fry, in 1906, the moment when so-called Indian Territory stood on the cusp of statehood. Behind the show’s romantic complications—and its memorable musical numbers—stand broader questions of community, belonging, and national identity, and the costs of answering those questions.

*If this event is full when you go to register, please email chp@illinois.edu to be placed on a waitlist. 

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