Financial Times / June 11, 2002
HERE WE GO ROUND PRETENTIOUSLY
By Martin Bernheimer
Richard Rodgers was born on June 28, 1902, but the centenary
celebrations in New York have been neither plentiful nor festive.
Trevor Nunn's Royal National Theater production of "Oklahoma!" failed
to weather its transatlantic crossing unscathed. On Broadway, the
iconoclastic darkness seemed forced, the theater too large and the
voices meagre despite grotesque over-amplification. Even more
distressing, the decision to scrap Agnes de Mille's historic, organic
choreography in favor of Susan Stroman's fashionable razzle-dazzle
seemed mystifying at best, perverse at worst. ...
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