Oklahoma!
The first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. Premièred at the St James Theatre on Broadway in New York in 1943.
Contents
The original text
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
First produced in South Africa at His Majesty’s Theatre in 1948, brought out by ACT, with Bob Lyon and La Verne Burden. Choreographed by Agnes De Mille.
Produced again by Joan Brickhill and Louis Burke in Durban (?*) in 1963/4.
Produced by the Alexander Theatre and Louis Burke-Joan Brickhill Productions in December, 1963. Set design by Roy Cooke.
Staged by the Port Elizabeth Gilbert & Sullivan Society in 1967.
Sources
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