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...legend goes that when Oklahoma! left Boston for New York (with the title Away We Go!) one reviewer up here kissed it off writing, "No legs, no jokes, no chance." Andy Cadiff, in his adaptation has stretched those odds, bringing in dialogue from the earlier straight play, Lynn Riggs' Green Grow the Lilacs, from which the musical was shaped. In doing so, he's underlined themes which had been implicitly obvious and undercut the celebrated cohesiveness that had made the show famous. Oklahoma! survives as a sturdy vehicle because all of its components synchronize and drive the show forward. This...
This fall's Loeb schedule looks promising: George Bernard Shaw's Candida coming up in late October, and Scapino, an adaptation of a play by Molier, and Oklahoma!, directed by Andy Cadiff, who has been trying for years to make the corny musical into an art form...
Winthrop House J-22 - Four major distractions, and a stereo isn't one of them. Barrett's always throwing tantrums and Cadiff around upstairs, Towne's always strumming his guitar, Ballentine's always sharpening his skis and McNabb is just loud, period. Always...
...directorial shortcoming that stems in part from the datedness of musical comedy conventions themselves is the roughness of transitions between comic and serious moments. An index of Cadiff's failure to effect these transitions is the laughter with which the audience greets the opening of "Ohio"--the sisters' supposedly poignant questioning of their wisdom in leaving home...
Ruth and Eileen had to leave. Before innocence is invaded by experience, before artistic aspirations become careers, the sisters must troop through their musical paces in company with the rest of Cadiff's talented cast. It's all worth it, though. In the end, their not staying home becomes reason enough for you not to either...