STAGE TUBE: On This Day for 3/21/16- OKLAHOMA!
Today in 2002, Oklahoma opened at the Gershwin Theatre, where it ran for 388 performances. Oklahoma is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey…