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Oklahoma! : the making of an American musical / Tim Carter.
LIBRA ML410.R6315 C37 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carter, Tim, 1954- author.
- Series:
- Broadway legacies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rodgers, Richard, 1902-1979. Oklahoma!.
- Rodgers, Richard.
- Musicals--Production and direction--New York (State)--New York.
- Musicals.
- Oklahoma! (Rodgers, Richard).
- Musicals--Production and direction.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 307 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- ""Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway on 31 March 1943 under the auspices of the Theatre Guild, and today it is performed more frequently than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. When this book was first published in 2007, it offered the first fully documented history of the making of the show based on archival materials, manuscripts, journalism, and other sources. The present revised edition draws still further on newly uncovered sources to provide an even clearer account of a work that many have claimed fundamentally changed Broadway musical theater. It is filled with rich and fascinating details about the play on which Oklahoma! was based (Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs); on what encouraged Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Guild to bring Rodgers and Hammerstein together for their first collaboration; on how Rouben Mamoulian and Agnes de Mille became the director and choreographer; on the drafts and revisions that led the show toward its final shape; and on the rehearsals and tryouts that brought it to fruition. It also examines the lofty aspirations and the mythmaking that surrounded Oklahoma! from its very inception, and demonstrates just what made it part of its times.""-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Setting the stage
- Contracts and commitments
- Creative processes
- Heading for Broadway
- Some Musical (and Other) Readings
- From stage to screen.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Carter, Tim, 1954- Oklahoma!
- ISBN:
- 9780190665210
- 9780190665203
- 0190665203
- 0190665211
- OCLC:
- 1130322250
- Publisher Number:
- 99985257180
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