Hitch up the surrey—you know the one, it has fringe on top—because Curly, Laurey, and Aunt Eller will soon be coming to a television screen near you. Oklahoma!, the 1943 musical by Rodgers and ...

“Oklahoma!” was Rodgers and Hammerstein’s first time working together as a team, and the duo based their musical on “Green Grow the Lilacs,” a 1930 play by Lynn Riggs. That story is also ...