Oklahoma! Musical Score Collection.

RODGERS, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein.

Item Number: 138547

New York: Williamson Music, Inc, 1943.

Collection of three musical scores from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s popular musical Oklahoma! Quarto, three volumes, original illustrated wrappers. The collection includes piano scores for The Surrey With The Fringe On Top, People Will Say We’re In Love, and I Cain’t Say No. In very good to near fine condition.

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box-office smash and ran for an unprecedented 2,212 performances, later enjoying award-winning revivals, national tours, foreign productions and an Academy Award-winning 1955 film adaptation. It has long been a popular choice for school and community productions. Rodgers and Hammerstein won a special Pulitzer Prize for Oklahoma! in 1944.