Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Oklahoma" opened on Broadway in 1943, as World War II was raging in Europe and the Pacific. And if you watch this game-changing musical with that historical context in mind - and the must-see production of the moment is director Jim Corti's glorious, grand-scale, effortlessly modern revival at Aurora's Paramount Theatre - you will realize this show was as necessary as any victory garden or…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 02:18PM on September 20, 2015