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Based on the play Green Grow The Lilacs by Lynn Riggs. There high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys where Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, live and eventually fall in love. A classic Rodgers and Hammerstein production.

 

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1947 Theatre World Award

Dorothea MacFarland

1980 Theatre World Award
Harry Groener

1993 Tony Award
Special 50th Anniversary Tony Award

2002 Theatre World Award
Justin Bohon

2002 Tony Award
Best Featured Actor in a Musical

2002 Drama Desk Award
Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical
(Shuler Hensley)
Outstanding Choreography

BROADWAY PREMIERE
March 31, 1943, played 2212 performances

REVIVAL
May 29, 1951, played 100 performances
December 13, 1979, played 293 performances
March 21, 2002, played 388 performances
 
COMPOSER
Richard Rodgers

LYRICIST & LIBRETTIST
Oscar Hammerstein II
 
ORIGINAL CAST
Betty Garde, Alfred Drake, Joan Roberts, Howard da Silva, Celeste Holm, Lee Dixon, Joseph Buloff

DIRECTOR
Rouben Mamoulian

CHOREOGRAPHER
Agnes de Mille
 
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

PRODUCTION RIGHTS
R&H Theatricals

LYRICS
libretto.musicals.ru
 
 
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