Oklahoma!: the dark anxiety at the heart of the hit musical coming to the West End
The seemingly sunny musical smuggled in some very difficult subjects, as the hit revival coming to the West End shows us
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The seemingly sunny musical smuggled in some very difficult subjects, as the hit revival coming to the West End shows us
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At the 66th Evening Standard Theatre Awards celebration in London, Daniel Fish’s UK iteration of his Tony Award–winning re-orchestrated revival of Oklahoma! was named Best Musical, and Patrick Vaill ’07 took home the Best Musical Performance Award for his role as Jud Fry in the play. Vaill originated the role 15 years ago as a theater and performance senior in Fish’s 2007 Bard staging, which had been commissioned by the then Director of Bard’s Theater Program JoAnne Akalaitis. “To be received by the audience and the city in this way is beyond anybody’s reasonable expectation of ...