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How exactly does Curly know the height of an elephant's eye? I don't mean to doubt the intelligence or inquisitiveness of the guy, but if I asked a pre-statehood Oklahoma cowboy how high the corn has grown, the first response I'd expect wouldn't be a comparison to the height of a proboscidea native to Africa and Asia. Perhaps he found a picture book in some public library, or maybe that famous Thomas Edison film of the electrocution of Topsy, the Coney Island elephant, had made its way to a local picture house.

Returning for the first time in a decade to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' Main Stage is Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! Voted the #1 Musical of the Century by the American Theatre Critics Association, OKLAHOMA! is known as the production that first brought together the prolific songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

Hillbarn Theatre kicks off its 69th season with Rodgers & Hammerstein's legendary musical Oklahoma!, presented September 4th through the 27th.

Returning for the first time in a decade to Chanhassen Dinner Theatres' Main Stage is Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! Voted the #1 Musical of the Century by the American Theatre Critics Association, OKLAHOMA! is known as the production that first brought together the prolific songwriting team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II.

This is Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration and, in many ways, their most innovative. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, a high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful backdrop against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love is seldom smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. But we're pulling for them every step of the way to succeed in making a new life together, and excited that they'll being doing it in 'a brand new state' - the triumphant OKLAHOMA!

The Carrollwood Cultural Center and the Salerno Theatre Company proudly present Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA! 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.

Lyric Theatre, Oklahoma's premiere professional theatre company, concludes the 2007-2008 'Lyric at the Plaza' season with the big, bad, rock-n-roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show. From October 9th through November 1st, Lyric will present the live version of the spectacular cult classic film about the madcap adventures of Brad Majors and his fiancé Janet Weiss, who approach the spooky Frankenstein place to find help for a flat tire.

To open their 70th Season, Paper Mill Playhouse takes a fresh look at this musical theatre classic. Arguably the most brilliant musical ever created, Oklahoma! changed the face of American musical theatre forever. 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.