Another Oklahoma Question from me!

Okay with my design project, I'm also designing for the Ensemble characters too.
Who is who in the script?

I going to divide them up into three groups

1) Farmers- Andrew Carnes

2)Cowman- Ike, Slim, Fred

3)Girls- Ellen, Kate, Slyvie, Armina, Aggie

Anyways are there more? I went to ibdb.com but have no idea who is who! There were more girls listed and they are pretty easy cause they only go into 1 group, but I'm having trouble deciding which of the guys are farmers and cowmen!
Do you know?
Here's a link to the ibdb.com cast list of the latest revival incase you're not sure what the names are:
http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=12938

Hos. Don't forget the Hos.

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The Hos? Who are they?

Are you refering to the Saloon Girls in the Jud Fry Ballet section?

This is not meant as catty, but have you read the script? Everything you need is in there. And, if you want another reference, the film is very good.

But, remember that in "Farmer and the Cowman", there are female farmers and female ranchers as well as those men listed.

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Well, you really hit the nail on the head because I have not been able to FIND a script of Oklahoma yet, but I have the film version and the stage version with Hugh Jackman and have seen them MANY times and own two recordings of it.
But I figured I knew Oklahoma pretty well and liked it enough to choose it for my design project. So I have looked for the script, but I have had no luck yet and it's this type of question where I really need the script.

Oh I'm doing some of that! Which was a be reason why I re-watched both films and looked at the photographs in the R&H Illustrated Songbook! However, if my instructor found out, she would give me an 'F' and probably turn me in for plagarism!

So I am looking, I'm just not going to put anything in my project that says that I am!

One thing about this project is I need to decide on a concept.

I for sure keeping it in the time periods. But I need to decide about the colors and give a good reason why. For example the movie and the OBC used a lot of bright colors, like pink. Colors that would never have been worn, I assume anyways :)

And the Hugh Jackman stage version had a very natural take on the costumes.

For my concept, I think I want to do something like a celebration of Oklahoma and its legacy. It's the first R&H collaboration, one of the first musicals to feature a more dramatic story line, my favorite musical and IMO America's Favorite Musical too!

So whether that means more vibrant color......I don't know yet, but I think it might :)

Well, remember that the big social event in "Oklahoma!" is the barn-raising/fund-raiser/dance that everyone is getting ready for. So the costumes should reflect that. The first part of the show is early in the day. The clothes should be average "working" clothes for the period. As the show progresses and the day goes on, everyone is getting ready for the big event, so they would be wearing more colorful, party, or special ocation clothes. Not your everyday attire. The "chorus" of visitors that stop over would likely be wearing traveling clothes or over-garments (to keep the dust off of them on the trip), etc.

I think you need to pick apart the action in the show, and figure out not just what "folks were wearing in the Midwest" back at the turn of the last century, but find the appropriate clothing for the actual events at hand.

"Functional as well as ornamental..."

Hope that helps.

Creatively, you'll have to decide on your own if you're going for realism or a more stylized interpretation overall.

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