Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Oklahoma! Comes to Michigan!








Center Stage Jackson is pleased to present Rogers & Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!” May 12, 13, 14 and 19, 20, 21 in the Baughman Theatre, Potter Center, Jackson Community College, 2111 Emmons Rd., Jackson. Tickets are available now! For ticket information and reservations, call the JCC Box Office at 517-796-8600. Box Office hours are 10 am until 4:00 pm Monday through Friday and one hour before curtain time.

Show times are 8 P.M., MAY 12, 13, 19, 20; 3 P.M., MAY 14 (Mothers Day!) and 21. Ticket prices are $15/ADULTS; $12/SENIORS; $10/STUDENTS (WITH ID). Group rates are available.

Monte Long is the artistic director.

“Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly (Kurt Frost), a handsome cowboy, and Laurey (Mary Krzesicki), a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant OKLAHOMA!” (from the R&H Theatricals website)