Oh what a beautiful musical!
North Carolina Theatre Conservatory presents a very limited engagement production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma! Chock full-of memorable Broadway standards including "People Will Say We're In Love," "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin," this musical marked the US arrival of one fresh-faced Aussie called Hugh Jackman! First performed on Broadway in 1943, it was the first collaboration between Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, the duo who would go onto to pen The King and I and The Sound of Music amongst many others.
An upcoming box social is stirring strong emotions among the population of a small Oklahoma town in the early 1900s. Cowboy Curly McLain has asked farm girl Laurey to accompany him but she has refused, instead accepting the invitation of the mysterious Jud Fry. Laurie's friend Ado Annie is going with her boyfriend Will Parker, but while he's been away she has been seen flirting with Persian pedlar Ali Hakim. On the night of the social, matters come to a head, in a whirlwind of dancing and fistfights.