THEA 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Rodgers And Hammerstein, Agnes De Mille, Nba Coach Of The Year Award
13 Mar 2017
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Start of rodgers & hammerstein and the golden age of broadway. Our(cid:272)e (cid:373)aterial: (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) ly(cid:374)(cid:374) iggs(cid:859) play green grow the lilacs (1931: ran for 2212 performances. Story: in the oklahoma territory (not yet a state) we meet a young farm girl laurey. She has to decide between taking cowboy curly or farmhand jud to the box social. Laurey decides to play coy with curly and takes jud to make curly jealous. Jud(cid:859)s feeli(cid:374)gs for laurey are far (cid:373)ore serious tha(cid:374) laurey(cid:859)s are for jud a(cid:374)d he (cid:272)o(cid:374)fro(cid:374)ts her a(cid:271)out his desire to (cid:373)ake her his o(cid:449)(cid:374). Curly (cid:272)o(cid:373)es to laurey(cid:859)s res(cid:272)ue a(cid:374)d ulti(cid:373)ately, they are (cid:373)arried. E(cid:272)o(cid:374)dary plot: aido a(cid:374)(cid:374)ie, laurey(cid:859)s frie(cid:374)d, is also i(cid:374)terested in finding a man- several men in fact. Her beau, will parker, tries to get her to commit but there are rumors about her and a peddler named ali hakim. Ultimately ali leaves, and aido and will are left to sort out their relationship.
