  {"id":1091,"date":"2011-10-27T00:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=1091"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T02:56:36","slug":"oklahoma-kennedy-theatre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2011\/10\/27\/oklahoma-kennedy-theatre\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit musical Oklahoma at Kennedy Theatre"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_1145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1145\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oklahoma.jpg\" alt=\"2 actors dancing on stage\" title=\"oklahoma\" width=\"300\" height=\"345\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oklahoma.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oklahoma-260x300.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karissa J. Murrell Adams as Laurey and Brandon Gregory Martinez as Curly in Oklahoma!, photo by Reese Moriyama<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rodgers and Hammerstein&#8217;s beloved musical <em>Oklahoma!<\/em> opens November 4 at <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/liveonstage\">Kennedy Theatre<\/a> on the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa campus, and runs for nine performances through November 20.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Kennedy Theatre musical production in four years.<\/p>\n<h2>About Oklahoma!<\/h2>\n<p><em>Oklahoma!<\/em> opened on Broadway in 1943 and was a box office smash, running for a then unprecedented 2,212 performances. It features enduring classics songs such as &ldquo;Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin&#8217;,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Surrey with the Fringe on Top&rdquo; and &ldquo;People Will Say We&#8217;re in Love.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The timeless dance numbers were originally created by famed choreographer Agnes DeMille. The musical was made into an Academy award winning film in 1956.<\/p>\n<p>Set in Indian Territory (the future state of Oklahoma) in 1906, the musical tells the story of the budding romance between a spirited farm girl and a headstrong cowboy, rivalry between local farmers and cowboys, and a comic love triangle. The many colorful characters make it a drama&#8211;filled, yet humorous love story.<\/p>\n<h2>Buy tickets<\/h2>\n<p>Advance tickets are now on sale at the Kennedy Theatre box office, <a href=\"https:\/\/ev9.evenue.net\/cgi-bin\/ncommerce3\/SEGetEventList?groupCode=KT&#038;linkID=hawaii&#038;shopperContext=&#038;caller=&#038;appCode=\">online<\/a> and at local ticket outlets. See the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/liveonstage\">Kennedy Theatre<\/a> website for more information.<\/p>\n<p><abbr>¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> M&#257;noa students can take advantage of two special Buy-One-Get-One-Free nights on November 10 and 17, beginning at 5 p.m. at the theatre box office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodgers and Hammerstein&#8217;s Oklahoma opens November 4 at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M&#257;noa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[113,131,133,130,9],"class_list":["post-1091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities","tag-kennedy-theatre","tag-music","tag-theatre","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/oklahoma-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143145,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions\/143145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}