Oklahoma!
13 - 17 May 2003

Director and choreographer: Martyn Knight
Musical director: Neil Streeter

The Haymarket, Basingstoke
Evenings: 7:30 pm, Saturday matinee: 3:00 pm

Back by extremely popular demand - the tapping cowboys, dodgy peddlar, surly farm hands, gals and ranchers hit the trail once more as the old West came to the Haymarket stage with director, Martyn Knight’s first visit to the Society.

Well, it's a beautiful morning and the farm folk are getting excited about who's taking who to the Box Social. Curly wants to go with Laurey in the "Surrey with the fringe on top" and she's not totally against the idea, but decides to play hard-to-get and instead agrees to go with the surly Jud, who she's not actually that fond of.  Ado Annie is thrilled at the return from "Kansas City" of her beau Will, but not thrilled enough not to agree to marry the peddlar, Ali Hakim, who isn't sure that marriage was what he had in mind at all. Despite his continued advances, Laurey keeps Curly at arms’ length, otherwise "People will say we're in love".

The second Act opens with the partygoers declaring that "the farmer and the cowman should be friends" and then promptly starting to brawl. Jud and Curly fight it out for Laurey's affections and Will manages (with some help from Ali himself) to win Annie from the peddlar - "All or Nuthin'". Weddings ensue and if this were panto, that would be it - but it isn't. Jud forces a final twist which threatens to spoil the 'happy ever after', but can the grim rancher take the shine off the day?

Box office tel: 01256 844244
Group bookings tel: 01256 366935

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PRESS Reviews

"The gals and fellas of BATS delighted the packed Haymarket Theatre."

The Basingstoke Gazette - Read full review

"A lively staging, well up to the usual high standard we have come to expect from this company."

Newbury Weekly News - Read full review


Cast

Aunt Eller
Vanessa Deer

Curly
Robert Wilson

Laurey
Theresa Lunn

Jud
Ian "Spud" Smith

Ado Annie
Tracey Gonzato

Will Parker
Richard Bond

Ali Hakim
Colin Flaherty

Carnes
Keith Shergold

Gertie Cummings
Dawn Wylie

Ike
Gerry Frawley

Fred
Colin Webb

Slim
Bryn Hughes

Cord Elam
Steve Donnelly

Ellen
Katy German

Virginia
Siobhan FitzPatrick

Kate
Liz Walsh

Vivian
Sally Manning

Dream Laurey
Libby Ruskell

Friends of Laurey
Lucy Errington, Katy German
Sarah Jeffery, Verity Marsh

Saloon Girls: Jenna Augustus, Rosalind Dutton, Siobhan FitzPatrick, Caroline Ruskell

Boy Dancers: Pete Chandler, Joe Crawford, Bryn Hughes, Craig Saunders

Female chorus: Jenna Augustus, Rosalind Dutton, Lucy Errington, Elizabeth Flaherty, Rachel Glover, Sarah Jeffery, Verity Marsh, Caroline Ruskell, Libby Ruskell, Melaine Such, Myra Ward

Male chorus: Anthony Bevan, Neil Brand, Pete Chandler, Richard Cox, Joe Crawford, Paul Graham, Michael Jacob, Steve Jeffery, Tom Langley, Craig Saunders, Ben Taylor, Mark Winter


Creative team

Director and Choreographer
Martin Knight

Musical Director
Neil Streeter

Assistant to the Director
Richard Cox

Stage Manager
Ian Fisher

Stage Crew
Peter Brenchley, Paul Manning, Maurice Schiller, John Scriven,
Nick Tanner, Simon Waller, Keith Reynolds, Sam Reynolds

Lighting and Sound
Viking Stage Lighting

Follow Spot Operators
Liz Ilett, Di Annakin

Scenery Supplied by
Proscenium Ltd, Rochdale

Props Coordinator
Justine Dunn

Props Crew
Abigail Parsons

Wardrobe
Anthony Mitchell

Costumier
The Costume Workshop, Isle of Wight

Wigs
"Big Wigs" trading at Edward James Cutting Rooms, Basingstoke

Make-up Mistress
Judith Farr

Continuity
Eileen Clewes, Carole Morley

Marketing and PR Officer
Bryn Hughes

Programme Photographs
Dave Webb

Show Photographs
Jan Brayley

Programme Creation
Tracey Gonzato, Melanie Such, Liz Walsh


Licensing information

Music by Richard Rodgers.  Book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.  Based on Lynn Riggs “Green Grow the Lilacs”.  Original dances by Agnes de Mille.
Presented by arrangement with Josef Weinberger Limited on behalf of The Rodgers and Hammerstein Theatre Library of New York.

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