Music by Richard Rodgers
Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Directed by Earl D. Weaver
Part of UCF Celebrates the Arts 2017
Friday, April 7, 2017 at 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 7:30 pm
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 colorful 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!
Walt Disney Theater, Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
445 S Magnolia Ave, Orlando, FL 32801
407-823-1500
http://www.theatre.ucf.edu
theatre@ucf.edu
Read More