Theater Talk The Best of Theater Talk 2006 Original tape date: March 18, 2006. An interview with Broadway leading man JOHN RAITT, done shorly before he passed away. Raitt, who was initially hired by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1943 to play Curly in the national road company of their musical OKLAHOMA went on to originate the role of Billy Bigelow in R&H's second Broadway hit, CAROUSEL and to star in the orig…
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