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MusicalSplaining

Oklahoma! (2019)

MusicalSplaining

Lindsay Ellis and Kaveh Taherian

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

This week we return to the LIVE THEATRE™ and discuss the 2019 production of the highly influential Rodgers and Hammerstein show. Angie talks about how this is the one musical she DIDN'T grow up watching and Kaveh reveals Oklahoma's ties to the genesis of this podcast.

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to the musical explaining podcast. I am your host and pumpkin

0:15.5

spiced everything, Kavita Herion. And I am, oh just a warm oversized sweater and knee

0:25.2

high brown velvet boots, just that perfect basic pitch combo Angelina me in. That's right

0:32.5

everyone. We're in fall now. I'm going to use my sweaty balls. We're the effort to

0:37.6

do our delicious dish. I am really happy here that we're in fall because that means my

0:43.6

good stop sweating as much. Cut for time. Speaking of, speaking of Gucci's, I like making

0:53.4

these transitions. Today we're talking about a very important, I think, right? It's a very

0:58.2

big musical that people know. Honestly, it's maybe the biggest musical you could talk

1:02.1

about ever. Is it really? Honestly, yes. Yes. It's kind of like, really? Yes. We'll get

1:08.4

into why, but I guess I mean, they already know what they're listening to if they know

1:11.4

the title of it, but we are. Oklahoma. Oklahoma with an exclamation point. That is. It is

1:17.9

Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Yes. And it is. It is. You have to say it. You have to say it

1:25.1

with the exclamation point, or it doesn't count. Yeah, exactly. If you don't, if you say,

1:31.4

if you say three times in a mirror with the exclamation point, the. Oh, Michelle is up the

1:35.4

state.

1:36.4

Oklahoma. It beats your ass with its panhandle really. So try that one at home, kids. I'm

1:44.0

sure it'll end well. But yes, we are talking about Oklahoma, the Rodgers and Hammerstein

1:49.1

musical about, well, I guess what people associated with singing cowboys, but it's so much more

1:54.5

than that. Again, I am not joking when I say this is kind of like the biggest show I think

1:59.7

you could honestly talk about because it is the beginning of basically all modern American

2:04.5

musical theater. Listen, I have a perfect tie in with this as well. Oh, yes. I had to

2:09.5

confirm with Sarah last night because I couldn't remember. But this is also a big part of musical

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