Oklahoma! [DVD]

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As Aunt Eller, Maureen Lipman is tough, wry, funny, touching, wise -hers is the most captivating performance of Eller one can imagine. She is perfect.Jud was great. That voice...oh my gosh! Such a rich voice, it's like "Lonely Room" was written for him. And Aunt Eller....oh I looove Aunt Eller. She steals the show. She's perfect. Then that is restaged for the camera. It pretends to be a performance in front of an audience, as shots from a real performance are spliced in. But the (valuable) extras reveal the rework to bring it to the camera. This is about as good as it gets unless we have something born out of the camera like Taymor has done. Stephen Colbert Forced To Cancel 'The Late Show' This Week After Undergoing Surgery For Ruptured Appendix Coming from somebody who is very fond of Rodgers and Hammerstein, Oklahoma! is always a pleasure to watch and hear. The story is engaging and remains as fresh and imaginative as it was seen on first reception. And the music is marvellous throughout, People Will Say We're in Love for me is one of the best songs Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote. Is there anything I prefer in the 1955 film to here? Perhaps the staging of Oh What a Beautiful Morning, done with a lot of spontaneity and charm here but the colour and quality of the sets in the 1955 film have Rodgers and Hammerstein written all over it.

He is one of only 2 Americans contributing to this quintessentially American musical (though all American accents are impeccable, and it's refreshing that the script's phony country pronunciations have been pared down to an unnoticeable level). The other is the choreographer Susan Strohman, whose work here is joyous, spectacularly inventive, and (as in the case of the Act II opener The Farmer & The Cowman) electrifying. The dancing, & there's lots of it, conveys the galvanic energy of these very physical frontier folk. It's thrilling to watch the cast's highly skilled dancers doing numbers that build and build to an explosive rapture that makes you wish you could only be up there with them. The Great British Baking Show': Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith Sent the Wrong Baker Home during "Party Week" This version has much to recommend it, but suffers from further stereotypes by foreigners of what the region it depicts was like. Some of the accents are atrocious ( born Oklahoman here.) The region portrayed is in fact lush and not barren. There's a limit to how much belief we can suspend when we're already asked to buy in to an orchestra and people breaking into song. I'm not literal-minded, but wish some of the casting were better (...if Will Parker says "bean" for "been" again...) Stream It Or Skip It: 'Holiday Road' on Hallmark, Where Nine Strangers Come Together for an Unforgettable Christmas Roadtrip

Stream It or Skip It: ‘Faraway Downs’ on Hulu, A Laudable Expansion of Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Australia’ That Tries To Repair The Sins Of The Past I must say that as a fan of the Rodgers and Hammerstein movie musicals, I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones in the screen versions of OKLAHOMA and CAROUSEL. MacRae had a fine baritone voice and Jones a clear, sweet soprano. Trafalgar Releasing, in partnership with Concord Originals and The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, present the screenings, coinciding with the 80th anniversary of the musical's groundbreaking 1943 premiere.

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