Sump'n Like Wings

Lynn Riggs (1899-1954) is the author of “Green Grows the Lilacs”, which became the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Oklahoma!” He wrote 21 other plays, including “Sump’n Like Wings”, which was optioned three times but never produced. It was published in 1928. Set in Oklahoma between Spring 1913 and Summer 1916, “Sump'n Like Wings" is a coming of age story, charting the growth of Willie Baker a fiery, impulsive young woman. Her uncle tells her mother, "You cain't keep her in a place that's got a lid on it. She's got sump'n inside of her like wings, and she'll beat off the cover, and she'll go away."