BUILDING BROADWAY: OKLAHOMA! Director Daniel Fish and Set Designer Laura Jellinek
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 พ.ค. 2019
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Director Daniel Fish and set designer Laura Jellinek discuss the Tony-nominated revival of OKLAHOMA! - บันเทิง
This is a prime example of the phrase "Less is More". Definitely rooting for this show on Tony night.
What I love about this production is it’s saying “let’s take away all the pomp and circumstance and recognize that there’s actually a really great story in there. Because more than anything, that’s what R&H were best at. And I love Circle in the Square so much. It’s great to see this space be so minimal after the thunderstorms of OOTI
I love the dinner theater idea. It’s great. I think it’s cool that they didn’t change the score at all, and yet it is able to tell a completely different story by focusing on other aspects of it than traditional performances. That takes a lot of creativity to do it and have it actually work.
This is great! Apparently there will be a national tour? Crossing my fingers they come to Cleveland because I’ve been obsessed with this show!
just saw the tour in San Francisco yesterday, it lived up to it's initials, not great , but OK.
I fr do not understand the hate for this production. It was incredible. I loved everything about it.
This production sounds really interesting. I hope to get to see it.
I was apart of Camp Broadway and we saw this show together and we got to talk with Allie because she did the camp when she was younger and now she’s on Broadway ! This show is so good.
Seeing it tomorrow!!!!!!
Seeing in August!
UGH........ OKLAHOMA! for millennials....LOL JK No seriously though, this whole concept is absolutely brilliant! Everything, including using the SIMPLEST percussion set up ever on Broadway, will add some of the similar vibes of an old trap style set! Also while not having a full orchestra, but including violin, and cello along with a very "Western" style rhythm section, will probably add a nice alternative to the original R&H score, but will also be able to incorporate smoother textures like, strings, brushes on snare, and also accordion! In fact I can actually picture much of the original score, in a country, folk kinda vibe!
why does everyone hate this show lmao it looks bloody awesome
Everyone does NOT hate this show. People who really understand theater, love this production. I saw it three times in May, 2019, and if I lived in New York, I would have seen it once every three weeks. I even considered flying back to New York from Australia to see it a fourth time before its final performance on January 19. Daniel Fish is a very clever man.
@@grantcurry4839 Correction: “people who really understand theatre [as a museum installation] really love this production.” Furthermore, Oklahoma!, is not just Theatre, it is inextricably Musical Theatre, which is its own l, very distinct animal, capable of humbling the most brilliant Creatives among us.
Fish is totally out of water when it comes to his understanding of Agnes de Mille’s contribution to the original production, and, for that matter, to Musical Theatre. I saw the national tour recently in Los Angeles. I would have liked to see it in the round, as Fish staged it at CitS, but, I’ve spent my entire life in the theatre, so, I could easily see what this was like in the round. I already knew I was not going to hear the familiar score. I was fascinated by the first Act. It was curious that not a single person seemed to be a trained singer, so, I was frequently worried about vocal fatigue. And, I was distracted by a couple of cast members who were absolutely floundering about what to do with their bodies on stage. But, about de Mille. I give a Deep Bow to the talented, young “Lead ‘Dream Baby Dream’ Dancer”, who was forced to . . . occupy . . . the stage for the opening of the 2nd Act, in an absolutely useless, grind-the-show-to-a-halt (performance art?) piece that accomplished nothing but subtracting . . . no, cancelling whatever appeal and intrigue might have been built up during the entire 1st Act. It was also unnecessarily loud. (It’s one thing to - predictably - alienate your audience. It’s another to actually injure them!) I had the distinct impression that the performance had been temporarily displaced by a student piece that had previously booked the venue. For me, the production never reclaimed what it had lost, never mind building to any kind of climax. Bless that “Lead Dancer” for her COURAGE! You collect that paycheck!
Perhaps to his credit, Fish ALMOST danced around Will Parker’s racism (toward Ali Hakim), but, he pussy footed around that, too.
For anyone truly knowledgeable about Theatre, Musical Theatre and Oklahoma!, Fish had nothing to reveal that thousands before him didn’t already know was there. This entire thing felt part Table Read, part Work-In-Progress-Theatre-Lab and part Museum Piece. In his efforts to reveal the story, Fish created distance I found unnavigable. Fish affirmed what most knowledgeable audiences already know about these familiar characters, and, then created obstacles to caring about any of them.
Because it turns a beloved musical into a complete, embarrassing farce.
I live in Oklahoma
So are they just throwing out the whole historical context in which the show is set? The contention between farmers and cowboys at the turn of the century at the time of Oklahoma’s statehood?
The script didn’t change at all
They didn't throw this out at all!!! This is still very much addressed and sort of with an added perspective. The show still very much takes place in the early 1900s.
@@Joannathewizard_ Then why is the entire show visually and stylistically anachronistic to 1906?
dude what? did they not have wood and guns in 1906 🤣@@crixxxxxxxxx also the costume design is fairly accurate to western style of the time period as well. The style is just minimalist.
@@Joannathewizard_ Absolutely not. None of the costumes are remotely accurate to 1906. You think women sat around wearing jeans and flannel shirts in 1906? Please. The whole thing looks like it takes place in some modern outdoor country bar with the electric crockpots and country music performers. None of that has any resemblance to what Oklahoma was like in 1906 at all.
No thank you. I'll pass. Rogers and Hammerstein must be spinning in their graves! The entire concept sucks!
cosmic voyager you suck
You're wrong. Richard and Oscar will be loving it.
No thank you..😒
Your loss - not everyone can have an intelligent taste in theatre.
@@josawesome1 your mad because its terrible? You like what you want and I can too.. get a life you stupid fuk..
@@josawesome1 LOL. A classic American musical being reduced to people sitting around on picnic tables eating chili is your idea of "intelligent theater."
This is wrong
Perris K. Fortson no I get the idea..... doesn’t look good tho
But it's modern what do you expect?
@@jaysadventures8887 Yes it does. It looks awesome, and it IS awesome.
It was and is good. The old way of doing shows needs to die out, we need more creativity like this on broadway
how can you say someones interpretation of a show is "wrong" ?