The musical Oklahoma is set in the Oklahoma territory in 1906. The first act opens up with the main character, Curly, talking to Laurey and Aunt Eller. Curly tries to ask Laurey to the box social that would be happening later, but she says no and instead goes with a man named Jud. Meanwhile, a cowboy named Will Parker comes home from his trip to Kansas City and says that he has won $50. Will needs this money so that the father of his girlfriend, Ado Annie, will allow him to marry her. He, unfortunately, spends all the money on presents for Annie. Annie later tells Laurey that while Will was in Kansas City, she fell in love with another man named Ali Hakim who is a Persian peddler. Laurey tells her that she will have to choose between the two, …show more content…
but Annie says she loves them both. Annie’s father, Andrew, finds out about her relationship with Ali and forces him to marry her. Ali agrees but is not happy about it. Curly discovers that Laurey and Jud will be going to the box social together and tries to convince her to go with him instead.
She refuses again, so Curly goes to the smokehouse where Jud lives. He tells Jud that, since he doesn’t feel appreciated, he should kill himself and then everyone would realize how much they cared about him. The two men then begin to fight and Curly eventually leaves. Jud’s urge to win Laurey becomes even stronger and he vows to marry her. Laurey is confused by her feelings for Curly and her fear of Jud. She decides to use some of the “magic potion” she bought from Ali earlier. He told her that it would solve her problems. Laurey then falls asleep and dreams of marrying Curly. Her dream takes a dark turn as Jud shows up, kills Curly, and takes Laurey away. She realizes that she can’t escape from him. Act II opens up with people square dancing at the box social. It turns into a fight between the farmers and the cowboys and is ended when Aunt Eller fires her gun in the air. Curly has decided to take a girl named Gertie Cummings, which makes Laurey …show more content…
upset. Later, Ali Hakim and Will Parker are talking, and Ali comes up with a plan to rid himself of Annie.
He decides to buy all of Will’s gifts from Kansas City for $50. Jud walks by and sees that Will has something called a Little Wonder, a tube to look at pictures with, but also has a secret blade inside. Jud buys it from Will and plans to use it on Curly. The men return to the social where an auction is taking place to help raise money for the school. Will bids $50 on Annie’s basket, not realizing that he would be losing the money he needed to be able to marry Annie. Not wanting to be stuck with Annie, Ali bids $51 on her basket, so Will can keep his money and marry Annie. When Laurey’s basket comes up for auction, it becomes a bidding war between Jud and Curly. The other farmers and cowboys try to help Curly and bid their money on Laurey’s basket, but Jud has saved all his money and outbids them all. Curly ends up winning the auction by selling his saddle, horse, and gun. Jud then tries to use the Little Wonder on Curly, but Aunt Eller intervenes by asking Curly for a dance, knowing what Jud was trying to do. Later that night, Annie and Will talk and she agrees to marry him. She promises to not flirt with other boys and says goodbye to Ali, who has decided to
leave. Jud tells Laurey about his feelings for her. When she tells him that she doesn’t feel the same he gets angry. Laurey fires him as her farmhand and goes to Curly. She tells him that she is frightened of Jud and is scared of what he will do. Curly then proposes to Laurey and she accepts. A few weeks later, Laurey and Curly are married. Ali returns and reveals that he is now married to Gertie Cummings after her dad threatened him with a shotgun. Then Jud shows up, drunk, and attacks Curly with a knife. During the fight, Jud ends up falling on his own knife and dies. The wedding guests hold a makeshift trial and the judge, Andrew Carnes, declares Curly “not guilty.” The play ends with Curly and Laurey going off on their honeymoon.
After finding Schrieber’s ranch ravaged by Native Americans, the stagecoach continues its journey to Lordsburg. Henriette, the gambler, the Englishman, the army wife and the cattleman are all riding inside the caravan while Malpais Bill rides on the roof. The gambler reassures the army wife by telling her that she will be safe between the Englishman and the cattleman and removes a gun from his pocket. He then asks Henriette how old she is and she responds by shrugging her
The second act is when the family arrives in San Juan and they are living in La Perla. Not everything was as they expected, Luis who was the only one that was economically supporting the family lost his job. Juanita, who was the daughter of Doña Gabriela, left her job because she had been raped and she even try to commit suicide. Luis found a job but he had a problem with his fiancé’s aunt to whom he have had previously sexual relationships with. His fiancée’s aunt gives him money to depart to New York encouraging him that he would be better off in the United States.
Curly’s wife was similar to Gatsby. She thirsted to be something that would flip her life upside down. To become an actor she would in turn be in another group of people, similar to Gatsby when he was inserted into another social class after he achieved his goal.
With the weight on his shoulders to take care of his family, Gilbert meets Becky, a young woman who gets stuck with her grandmother in Endora. As Becky and Gilbert spend more time together, the more he realizes that he leads an empty life and that there is much more to life that he wants to explore outside of his small town. As the day finally comes to celebrate Arnie’s 18th birthday, a day much emphasized, the mother Bonnie dies. With her weight being a problem, she needs a crane to lift her out of the house. To save their family from shame and embarrassment, Gilbert burns down the house. Gilbert is able to start a new life by moving out of Endora with Arnie and Becky.
Curly is the bosses son and takes full advantage of it by picking on the other workers especially Lennie. He likes to lie and gets angry easily. He's not very confident especially in his wife because he thinks that she's cheating on him.
In act two, the central characters of each narrative are forced into combat by the demands of the wife, who with her husband, have hijacked the stage to demand a play of their own desire. The battle between Rafe and Jasper is can be seen as a comical attempt for control over the stage but also an ideological dispute born out of the character differing identities. For example, this scene can be taken quite literally as an attempt by the players to regain power over their performance:
Only Will, who is like a son to Rucker, knows that he just needed a cheap housekeeper, and that he truly loved Matty Lou and he was heartbroken from her death. Eventually, as the gossip continues to grow more elaborate, Will goes on a walk in the country to escape from the drama of his family and the townsfolk. Even here though, he ran into trouble, in the form a of a train. Will was walking between the railroad tracks, completely oblivious, when a train came around the bend. Will only survived because he heard it at the last moment and dropped between the tracks and lay completely flat, letting the train pass over him. When the train had finally passed him, he was in shock, and some of the passengers got off and took him back home. This quickly swept Rucker’s elopement under the rug, and all people could talk about was what had happened to Will. Once things had settled down, however, it came back up, and Rucker and Love were shunned by their neighbors, their family, and their
The couple spent the summer together and developed the meaning of true love. One evening, Noah takes Allie, to an old farmhouse, tells her his dream of buying and restoring it one day, she tells him she wants to be a part of that dream, she wants the house white, have blue shutters, a wrap-around porch, and wants a room that overlooks the creek so she can paint. With all the excitement the two lost track of time and when she returned home she found out her parents called the police; her parents forbid her to ever see Noah again. Allies parents did not approve of the social differences in the teens upbringing. Allie’s mother moved her away to New York, for her to forget Noah, and interact with people of her social lifestyle at college.
The setting of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was set in with a happy society with some upsetting problems. The story was set in the 1950’s, the story started in Kansas and then it moved into a wonderful place called Oz. Dorothy lived in Kansas and grown up with her Aunt Em, Uncle Henry, and her loving pet Toto. But one day on the farm a tornado came and she was in her bedroom listening to the wind which made her very tired so she fell fast asleep. She dreamed of the Land of Oz, a happy place with many happy little munchkins. In the Land of Oz she made many new friends such as the Scarecrow, Tin wood man, Cowardly lion and the witch of the North.
Act II, Scene 2, which appeared in the original production, was dropped by the author from the published reading version. It has not been included in most productions. Read the scene and
...rite about Linda to rid his memory of the horridness that she went through the day her cap was removed and the visual truth came out.
Memphis Broadway Productions story takes place in Memphis Tennessee. It is about love between two characters Huey and Felicia. Where they can’t show their love in public because of racism in the 1950’s. Huey’s goal is to make Felicia’s dreams come true for becoming a professional singer and to make her famous. Chad Kimball who portrays Huey and Montego Glover who portrays Felicia chemistry on stage shows the love between the actual characters in the production. How the actors portrayed love between the characters by how they smile at each other, call each other pet names, when Felicia leaves town without him, and how they sang together on stage.
It is in the scenes directly following Act 3 Scene 2 that we see two
to auction his family. The auction begins as a kind of cruel joke, but Susan
Act II Scene I has been written as a humorous scene. It is meant to be funny and light-hearted. Although a modern day audience may not laugh out loud, the humour, itself, is very obvious.