Oklahoma - 1975
by arrangement with Chappell & Co. Ltd
Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II
Music by Richard Rogers
Production Team
Producer - Jack Tait
Musical Director - S. Gordon Lang
Choreographer - Douglas Gray
Characters in order of appearance
Aunt Eller - Elizabeth Rennie
Curly - Jim Barr
Laurey - Nan Tait
Ike Skidmore - Martin Shelley
Slim - William Struthers
Will Parker - Bill Walker
Jud Fry - David Hughes
Ado Annie Carnes - Barbara McElroy
Ali Hakim - Denis Hannigan
Gertie Cummings - Aileen Finlay
Andrew Carnes - Tom McCardle
Cord Elam - Jack Allan
Dream Ballet:
Laurey - Lenora Falsey
Curly - Jim Maxwell
Jud Fry - Martin Shelley
Ladies of the Chorus
Rhona Blair, Aileen Brookens, Sheena Brough, Betty
Creighton, Christine Dargie, Brenda Doyle, Frances Doyle, Maureen Doyle,
Betty Drennan, Aileen C. Finlay, Alva Haig, Rita Hindle, Isa Hornal, Enid King,
Alison Love, Carol Love, Rona MacGregor, Dorothy Maule, Fiona Morley,
Marguerite Murphy, Joyce Nicholl, Betty Roberts, Ann Struthers, Elizabeth
Struthers, Gillean Tait.
Gentlemen of the Chorus
Jack Allan, Bruce Arthur, Bert Blair, Tom Borland,
John Cameron, Jim Caullay, John Ferris, Brian Gillespie, Gordon Hughes,
Graham Hughes, Robert McDennott, Jim Maxwell, Bill Roberts, Martin Shelley,
David Smith, Bill Struthers, Bill Taggart, Colin Thomas.
Dancers
Morag Arthur, Joan Baird, Lesley Baird, Dorothy Bedford, Helen Craig,
Lenora Falsey, Sandra Goodfellow, Susan Turner.
Hon. President - Alex McWilliam
Hon. Vice-President - Hugh C. Gray
President - William Struthers
Vice-President - Denis Hannigan
Secretary - Elaine Anderson
Treasurer - Nancy Hughes
Committee - Jack Tait, Elizabeth Struthers, Tom Borland, Bill Roberts, Rita Hindle, David Waters
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Synopsis of Scenes
Act I
Scene 1 The Front of Laurey's Farm House.
Scene 2 The Smoke House
Scene 3 A Grove on Laurey's Farm
Act II
Scene 1 The Skidmore Ranch
Scene 2 Skidmore's Kitchen Porch
Scene 3 The Back of Laurey's Farm House
Time Just after the turn of the century
Place Indian territory (now Oklahoma)
Musical Synopsis
Act I
Overture
1. "Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin'" - Curly and Aunt Eller
2. Laurey's Entrance - Laurey
3. "The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top" - Curly and Laurey
4. "Kansas City" - Will Parker and Boys
5. Reprise of " The Surrey with the Fringe on
The Top " - Curly
6. "I Can't Say No" - Ado Annie
7. Entrance of Ensemble - Will, Ado Annie, Curly and Ensemble
8. "Many a New Day" - Laurey and Girls
9. Dance"Many a New Day" - Dancers
10. "It's a Scandal ! It's an Outrage !" - Ali Hakim and Boys
11. "People Will Say We're in Love" - Laurey and Curly
12. "Pore Jud is Daid" - Curly and Jud
13. "Lonely Room" - Jud
14 Dream Sequence - Laurey and Girls
(a) Melos
(b) Out of My Dreams
(c) Interlude to Ballet
(d) Dream Ballet
Act II
15. Entracte
16. "The Farmer and the Cowman" - Carnes, Aunt Eller and Ensemble
17. Farmer Dance - Dancers
18. "All Er Nuthin'" - Ado Annie and Will Parker
19. Reprise of" People Will Say We're in Love" - Laurey and Curly
20. "Oklahoma" - Curly and Ensemble
21. Finale Ultimo - Ensemble
Stage manager - David Waters
Club Accompanist - Nan McKechnie
Dance Pianists - David Lang & Matt Lang
Property Master - Jack McElroy
Wardrobe Mistress - Edna Porter
Assistant Wardrobe Mistress - Evelyn Denton
Lighting - David Roberts
Make-Up - Jean Waters
Leader of Orchestra - Andrew Wilson
Prompter - Irene Roberts
Performance Details
24th February - 1st March 1975
The Village Theatre,
East Kilbride
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It is a story of simple people, living and loving and quarrelling against the background of
the birth of a State... Oklahoma. There were two factions The farmers and the cowboys
and they did not live in complete harmony. Curly, a cowboy, loves Laurey, the niece of Aunt
Eller, who is a farmer. But Laurey cannot make up her mind she has a bit of the coquette
in her and rather encourages the attentions of Jud, the general factotum of the farm. Jud is
loutish fellow with a very shady past and a depraved nature which is evident from the pictures
on the wall of his Smoke House. An argument between Curly and Jud as to who takes Laurey
to a "box" social ends with guns, but no harm done. It frightens Laurey into the knowledge
that she loves Curly, but is in fear of Jud. Her fear is increased by her dream when the ballet
dances her fate a tragic wedding scene in which Jud overthrows Curly, the bridegroom, and
carries Laurey off as his prize. She accepts Jud's escort to the "box" social. The "box" is the supper hamper which each girl supplies; these are auctioned to the men who thus win the girl
for supper partners. Curly only succeeds in out-bidding Jud for Laurey's hamper by selling all
his worldly possessions saddle, gun, and finally his horse. The magnificence of it brings Laurey
to her senses her fear of Jud vanishes and she orders him off Aunt Eller's farm. She consents
to marry Curly and their happiness seems assured. Meanwhile others are falling in and out
of love. Ado Annie, who just can't say "No" to any man, has become involved with a pedlar
man, Ali Hakim, although she was more or less promised to Will Parker, who returns from
Kansas City with loads of presents for her. Her father has a nasty habit of pointing a gun at
reluctant suitors and Ali a real philanderer finds himself "hooked" by that simple ruse.
He manages to slide out of it by helping Will to win Ado Annie back to his side. But in doing
so Ali bounces into the arms of Gertie, whose father uses the same gun barrel tactics to better
effect than Ado Annie's had done.