Sex, boots and slide-guitars roll into Winspear Stripped-down, gun-totin’ Oklahoma! is a hit and miss show Review by Martha Heimberg The classic musical Oklahoma!, written by Rodgers and Hammerstein in 1943, was a stirring, romantic and optimistic gift to Americans in the middle of World War II. Great songs, young love and the thrill of making a new life in the newest state energized the stylized hoedown dancing and heartfelt singing.   Times have changed.  Now a new, darker take on the famed musical tries to reflect our country’s ongoing turbulence – not just over gun violence – but gender equality

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