SteynOnline - Mark Steyn At The Theater: Oklahoma!

SteynOnline - Mark Steyn At The Theater: Oklahoma!

"Before Oklahoma!, Broadway musicals were set in the here and now, and packed with topical references to Eleanor Roosevelt and Artie Shaw and Elsa Maxwell. After Oklahoma!, Broadway musicals were set in Edwardian London and Weimar Berlin and turn of the century Anatevka.... It's a measure of how completely Rodgers and Hammerstein overhauled the musical that today the last thing you're likely to see on Broadway is a show set in New York in 1998 with characters making cracks about Hillary Clinton or O.J. Simpson or Celine Dion..."