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Saturday-Night Theatre presents 'Oklahoma!'

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SATURDAY-NIGHT THEATRE PRESENTS THE THEATRE GUILD'S PRODUCTION OF 'OKLAHOMA!'
A Musical Play based on 'Green Grow the Lilacs' by Lynn Riggs
Music by Richard Rogers
Book and Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
With the cast now appearing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane:
Laurey Isabel Bigley Curly Chris Robinson Ju'd Fry Alfred Cibelli Aunt Eller Jennie Gregson Ado Annie * Betty Jo Jones Ali Hakim Harry Ross Will Parker Victor Griffin Andrew Carnes Walter Peterson Gertie Cummings Eleanor Drew Ike Skidmore Lionel Baker Cord Elam Stan Thomason AND Maxwell Coker, Glynne Davies, Brenda Barker, Gwen Overton, Molly Bodger, Aileen Kelly, Helen Jutsen, Laura Hedley, Helen Miskin, June Rose, Jack Higginson, Frank Taylor, William Thorburn, Gordon Stephenson, Clive Stock, Stokely Gray, and Ivor Smith
THE ORCHESTRA DIRECTED BY REGINALD BURSTON

THE PLAY ADAPTED AND PRODUCED FOR RADIO BY RONALD WALDMAN
TONIGHT AT 9.15

On page 3 Beverley Baxter writes about the Drury Lane show that flouted tradition and succeeded :

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