Oklahoma! (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Trevor Nunn

Writers:

Oscar Hammerstein II (writer)
Lynn Riggs (play)

Release Date:

26 September 1999 (Australia)

Genre:

Musical | Romance | Western

Plot Keywords:

Peddler | Cowboy Hat | Rancher | Shivaree | Auction

Cast

Hugh Jackman	...	Curly McLain
Josefina Gabrielle	...	Laurey Williams
Shuler Hensley	...	Jud Fry
Jimmy Johnston	...	Will Parker
Maureen Lipman	...	Aunt Eller
Peter Polycarpou	...	Ali Hakim
Vicki Simon	...	Ado Annie
Stuart Milligan	...	Cord Elam
Helen Anker	...	Aggie
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Julie Barnes	...	Kate
Luke Baxter	...	Slim
Sarah Bayliss	...	Mabel
Warren Carlyle	...	Jake
Chris Coleman	...	Seth
Leigh Constantine	...	Lucy
Amanda Courtney-Davies	...	Rosie
Philip Cox	...	Mike
Marilyn Cutts	...	Armina
Zoe Dawson	...	Susie
Susie Dumbreck	...	Ellen
Tom Dwyer	...	Jess
Howard Ellis	...	Joe
Ben Garner	...	Juthroe
Elizabeth Cooper Gee	...	Alice
Shaun Henson	...	Sam
Sarah Ingram	...	Sylvie
Nicola Keen	...	Vivian
Sydney Livingstone	...	Andrew Carnes
Fergus Logan	...	Corky
Helen Missing	...	Emily
Craig Purnell	...	Fred
David Shelmerdine	...	Ike Skidmore
Stephen Spender	...	Ed
Rebecca Thornhill	...	Gertie Cummings
Kevin Wainwright	...	Chalmers

Runtime:

180 min (DVD)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:PG

Company:

Royal National Theatre

Trivia:

The original Broadway production of "Oklahoma!" opened at the St. James Theater in New York City on May 31, 1943 and ran for 2,212 performances, setting a record for a musical.

Quotes:

Curly: The preacher'd get up and he'd say, "Folks! We are gathered here to moan and groan over our brother Jud Fry, who hung himself up by a rope in the smokehouse." Then there'd be weepin' and wailin' from some of those womern. Then he'd say, "Jud was the most misunderstood man in the territory. People useter think he was a mean, ugly feller! And they called him a dirty skunk and a ornery pig stealer!" But the folks that really knowed him, knowed that beneath them two dirty shirts he always wore,
[sings]
[...]

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Broadway: The American Musical: Give My Regards to Broadway: 1893-1927 (#1.1)" (2004)

Brilliant

I have only just found this website and this thread so I would like to post my comments about the National Theatre's production of Oklahoma.

I was lucky enough to go to the show at the NT and was absolutely entranced by it all. As most people have said Hugh Jackman was a revelation. I saw the show before he became famous as Wolverine so had no preconceptions about him. I am so glad that he has done so well.

Maureen Lipman was terrific as Aunt Eller. When the video was shot I understand she was suffering from an abcess on her tooth but you would have never known.

Must watch the video again.