On a brightly lit, pine wood stage which extends to the facia panels on the walls and boxes around the Wyndham’s auditorium, (effectively rendering them like cheap Western coffin lids) the banjo, guitar and string-strumming band members remain in full sight of the audience from the get go in this production of spectacular extremes. It’s certainly Oklahoma! as you’ve never seen it before, or indeed heard it…or once loved it.
Greg Hicks (Andrew Carnes), Philip Olagoke (Cord Elam) and Georgina Onuorah (Ado Annie) in Oklahoma! Photo by Marc Brenner.
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