Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today.
Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colourful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!
Cast Requirements: PRINCIPALS
3 Women
4 Men
FEATURED
1 Woman
2 Men
ENSEMBLE
Large singing-dancing ensemble with numerous small roles
CHARACTERS
Aunt Eller
Curly
Laurey
Ike Skidmore
Fred
Slim
Will Parker
Jud Fry
Ado Annie Carnes
Ali Hakim
Gertie Cummings
Ellen
Kate
Sylvie
Armina
Aggie
Andrew Carnes
Cord Elam
Jess
Chalmers
Mike
Joe
Sam
Set Requirements: OKLAHOMA! takes place in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) just after the turn of the century.
SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
The Front of Laurey's Farmhouse
The Smoke House
A Grove on Laurey's Farm
The Skidmore Ranch
Skidmore's Kitchen Porch
The Back of Laurey's Farmhouse
Genre / Style: Musical Comedy, Western
Rehearsal / Orchestral Material: Orchestration Package (16 Books)
1 PIANO CONDUCTOR SCORE
1 FLUTE (Doubling Piccolo)
1 OBOE (Optional English Horn)
1 CLARINET I-II (Clarinet I doubles Bass Clarinet)
1 BASSOON
1 HORN I-II
1 TRUMPET I-II
1 TROMBONE
1 PERCUSSION
2 VIOLIN A-B (Divisi)
1 VIOLA (Divisi)
1 CELLO
1 BASS
1 GUITAR (Doubling Banjo)
1 HARP
Two Piano Arrangement (2 Act I, 2 Act II)
Bandstration Books (21 Books)
1 Piano Conductor Score, Bandstration
1 FLUTE I-II (Both Doubling Piccolo with Opt Flute III)
1 OBOE
1 CLARINET I
1 CLARINET II
1 CLARINET III
1 ALTO CLARINET
1 BASS CLARINET
1 BASSOON
1 ALTO SAX I-II
1 TENOR SAX
1 BARITONE SAX
1 TRUMPET I
1 TRUMPET II-III
1 HORN I-II
1 TROMBONE I-II
1 TROMBONE III
1 BARITONE HORN
1 TUBA (Optional Divisi for two players)
2 PERCUSSION
Musical Numbers: Oh What A Beautiful Mornin, People Will Say We're In Love, The Surrey With The Fringe On Top, I Cain't Say No, Kansas City, All Er Nothin, Poor Jud Is Daid, Many A New Day...