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Music Appreciation

Chipper Chat

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3. without reading the article

Reply to elleng (Original post)

Tue May 1, 2018, 10:12 AM

May 2018

I understood it to be in 1943 when instead of Oklahoma opening with a chorus line of leggy gals but with a bare stage and a woman churning butter. That was unheard of and the critics immediately doomed the musical as a failure.

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