West Side Story
Feb 5
2020, 10:00:30 PM
MollyJeanneMusic said: "Oklahoma had some radically different elements from the original - the dream ballet, the lighting, the orchestrations, the staging of the fight - but its big selling point was that it did this without changing a word of the text (besides adding "Oh, come on, not the guitar" for Laurey). 
First time poster, long time follower! Just wanted to chime in because I've been reading a lot on this thread about how Oklahoma didn't change or cut any text, which is not true. They did significant cuts to the text. Off the top of my head, there's some tarot card reading dialogue before Out of My Dreams, and a whole scene before Jud enters the wedding where all the men taunt Curly and Laurey outside their bedroom window. I loved the Oklahoma revival, and I love the West Side Story revival but, yes, there were cuts.
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