Hey Look Ma, I'm Posting About Oklahoma Again.
WARNING: Grab one of those old timey fainting couches before watching this video or make sure you're sitting in a safe environment where swooning from romance won't endanger you.
I unabashedly love Oklahoma. It was the first musical I was ever in and it's got some of the best Golden Age bops of the Rodgers and Hammerstein persuasion. It was also one of the very first posts on this here blogamajig. So when I heard it was being revived, I was pleased, but had no real desire to see it (just wait 3 months and a local high school will do it, amirite?).
But this song? The OBC that dropped on Friday?
Has me contemplating an impulse trip to NYC.
First of all Damon Daunno:
And secondly, Ali Stroker!
I cried when she won. She's incredible and the video below proves it.
It's pretty magical to me to see a show often deemed as cheesy and old be modernized without changing a single word.
People are realizing how complex and emotional these songs are, but what about this new version is opening people's eyes to Oklahoma?
Is it the updated costumes?
The stripped down orchestrations (with Curley playing most of his songs on guitar)?
The updated dream "ballet?"
The chili you eat during intermission?
What do you think?
I unabashedly love Oklahoma. It was the first musical I was ever in and it's got some of the best Golden Age bops of the Rodgers and Hammerstein persuasion. It was also one of the very first posts on this here blogamajig. So when I heard it was being revived, I was pleased, but had no real desire to see it (just wait 3 months and a local high school will do it, amirite?).
But this song? The OBC that dropped on Friday?
Has me contemplating an impulse trip to NYC.
First of all Damon Daunno:
And secondly, Ali Stroker!
I cried when she won. She's incredible and the video below proves it.
It's pretty magical to me to see a show often deemed as cheesy and old be modernized without changing a single word.
People are realizing how complex and emotional these songs are, but what about this new version is opening people's eyes to Oklahoma?
Is it the updated costumes?
The stripped down orchestrations (with Curley playing most of his songs on guitar)?
The updated dream "ballet?"
The chili you eat during intermission?
What do you think?
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