As musicals go, this was one of the crappest, hey? Your post got me wondering....Oklahoma and Sound of Music are better musicals, but very saccharine, oui? Had a google for their dates...Oklahoma was a 1955 film of a 1943 production. Sound of Music a 1965 musical from a 1959 stage show. So they knew better by 65, surely, but decided they were onto a winner? And Oklahoma...sigh...who could explain Oklahoma....
...what gets me about Oklahoma, is that everyone, EVERYONE who applies for permission to put it on for their school musical etc, has to agree to stage it and choreograph it in EXACTLY the same way. I've seen too many amateur Oklahomas in my day.
Was this the forerunner of Glee?
ReplyDeleteit was the forerunner of an epidemic of sudden onset macular degeneration, but not sure about glee?
ReplyDeleteAs musicals go, this was one of the crappest, hey? Your post got me wondering....Oklahoma and Sound of Music are better musicals, but very saccharine, oui? Had a google for their dates...Oklahoma was a 1955 film of a 1943 production. Sound of Music a 1965 musical from a 1959 stage show. So they knew better by 65, surely, but decided they were onto a winner? And Oklahoma...sigh...who could explain Oklahoma....
ReplyDeleteno one could ever explain oklahoma
ReplyDeleteI'm just a gal who cain't say no ... tra la laaaaaa
...what gets me about Oklahoma, is that everyone, EVERYONE who applies for permission to put it on for their school musical etc, has to agree to stage it and choreograph it in EXACTLY the same way. I've seen too many amateur Oklahomas in my day.
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