Oklahoma, OK!
Nov. 11th, 2022 09:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloOklahoma! is part of the soundtrack of my childhood. The big numbers were always playing on the radio- and the radio was playing a lot. Do I love those songs? Hard to say. Did I love my great aunts? They were around too- playing in the background while I did whatever it was that interested me more.
But I did love one of them: Aunt Joan- because she was younger than the others and had a bit of mischief about her. And I love "O, what a beautiful morning" because it's ecstatic.
Judy, who knows about musical theatre, says the joy in Oklahoma is the joy of Rogers getting to work with Hammerstein. They'd both been tied up in less than perfect partnerships, Hammerstein with Jerome Kern who wanted to do lightweight comedy where Hammerstein wanted to do drama and Rogers with Lorenz Hart who was drinking himself to death. Then, suddenly, the whirlwind romance and the marriage made in heaven...
We'e going up to Leicester today to watch our eldest grandchild in an amateur production of Oklahoma. For all that I'm soused in their product it'll be only the second time I'm sat through the whole of a Rogers and Hammerstein show...
But I did love one of them: Aunt Joan- because she was younger than the others and had a bit of mischief about her. And I love "O, what a beautiful morning" because it's ecstatic.
Judy, who knows about musical theatre, says the joy in Oklahoma is the joy of Rogers getting to work with Hammerstein. They'd both been tied up in less than perfect partnerships, Hammerstein with Jerome Kern who wanted to do lightweight comedy where Hammerstein wanted to do drama and Rogers with Lorenz Hart who was drinking himself to death. Then, suddenly, the whirlwind romance and the marriage made in heaven...
We'e going up to Leicester today to watch our eldest grandchild in an amateur production of Oklahoma. For all that I'm soused in their product it'll be only the second time I'm sat through the whole of a Rogers and Hammerstein show...
