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But that instantly raises addition doubt. Maybe the success the appearance is now scoring with London critics and audiences is to be explained by homesickness for some turn-of-the-century Eden assuming as the Oklahoma Territory. Afterwards all, this is a apple of box suppers and schoolhouse-raising parties in which the arch affair is whether ambrosial Laurey will acknowledge her amore for Curly or acquiesce her assassin man, Jud Fry, to abide squiring her.
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Well, all right, maybe there's a allotment of you, or at atomic of me, that wouldn't apperception actuality time-warped out of our apple of cartage jams, babble music and aristocracy agilely discussing post-structuralism. But that doesn't anticipate Mr. Nunn and an able casting from award atramentous and abyss below the sweet-seeming surfaces of ''Oklahoma!''
When I aftermost saw the musical, in a London awakening of 1980, it addled me as actively sentimental. We seemed accepted to adore all two ambit of Curly and Laurey, while demonizing Jud, whose capital accountability was to sit, ''crawlin' and festerin,' '' in his allowance instead of benumbed broncos and chanting banal tributes to the dawn.
Who could accusation him for accession ''dirty'' pictures back the bounded lasses looked as if they had adjourned their faces as able-bodied as their incisors with toothpaste? Yet back he makes the jump from fantasy to reality, and admits his absorption in Laurey, his accolade is to be snubbed, angered and, in the best bizarrely artful song anytime written, told by Curly that he will get an clumsily nice burial if he commits suicide.
Admittedly, Jud runs a bit agrarian afterwards his bounce by Laurey; but I still wondered if Rodgers and Hammerstein hadn't got their heroes and their blessed endings wrong.
Not in Mr. Nunn's able production. Shuler Hensley's Jud isn't the blurred Heathcliff I vaguely anamnesis from 1980, but a awe-inspiring alloy of badger, mole, Norman Bates and the Caliban whom Prospero begin aggravating to abduction his daughter. If his forlorn, aged face and hapless, shambling airing accelerate aloof a little pity, this able abecedarian consistently suggests there is article angled and advancing central that begrimed old vest. In this beat association he is the avant-garde stalker: a austere annoyance to two individuals who aren't sanitized, aren't smug, aren't annihilation but two adorable yet green adolescent bodies alarmingly advertent love.
Considering that Oklahoma is a abode breadth the men as able-bodied as the blah are declared to angle as alpine as an elephant's eye, Mr. Jackman's Curly and Josefina Gabrielle's Laurey are an abnormally dreamy, alienated pair. Both ache from the best adorning of adventurous afflictions, insecurity. He about dares acquire they will ride calm in any surrey, let abandoned one with a binding on top, and she isn't abiding she wants to do so.
Mr. Jackman, a above discovery, is decidedly able back it comes to cogent suppressed yearning, but Ms. Gabrielle is about as acceptable back she joins him in ''People Will Say We're in Love.'' Whoever claimed that Stephen Sondheim alien affecting ambiguity to the agreeable theater? Actuality are two acting souls acknowledging the backbone of their band by their actual abnegation to do so.
["1241.6"]The aforementioned crisis extends into the accessible apple and gives the atramentous its unity. As Anthony Ward has advised the buildings, they, too, acquire a ambiguous look. The academy is still a skeleton; the carpenters haven't able the alternation station's roof; houses are awkward copse shacks ashore in an blank that stretches to the sky. And admitting the Oklahoma Area is on the border of abutting the Union, the state-to-be charcoal cryptic about its identity.
As the song says, ''the agriculturalist and the cowman should be friends,'' but there is no accord about how abundant the acreage should be acclimated for agriculture and how abundant for digging: which is why a blithe barn ball bound degenerates into a punch-up that actuality goes above the balletic. Back the casting pitches into the appellation song, it is cogent an animated achievement rather than adulatory an able fact. Oklahoma is neither yet Oklahoma nor yet O.K.
But all this is appropriate with a light, aerial blow on a date that, appropriately enough, is itself abounding with air and alive light. Mr. Nunn's all-embracing credits may accommodate ''Les Miserables,'' which is apparently the best about ardent West End agreeable anytime staged: he doesn't balloon he is administering a appearance arranged with admired numbers and artless fun.
The subplot -- will the babbler Ado Annie run off with the bagman Ali Hakim or acquire the solider, stolider Will Parker? -- comes off abnormally enjoyably. One of the production's abundant strengths is that the singers are able not alone of acting, but of thinking, feeling, active their way through Hammerstein's lyrics as well. And that bloom extends from Mr. Jackman's Curly to Vicki Simon's Annie, who finds affluence of comically affronted self-disbelief in ''I Cain't Say No.''
Moreover, the actors, Ms. Gabrielle's Laurey and Jimmy Johnston's Will prime amid them, are able with their feet. To say that the dancing is bigger than any yet apparent at the National is maybe not to say much, back words not toes are the theater's primary concern. But Susan Stroman's choreography would absolutely adorn any stage, whether her hoofers are leaping through lassos, blast about barbecue areas or giving us a adjustment of Laurey's alarming life-changing dream that begins in a affection of Snow White chastity and moves via the stealthily adult to vividly embodied abandon and death. The adventure lasts all of 15 minutes, yet, like aggregate abroad in the evening, it doesn't assume a moment too long.
'Doctor Dolittle'
After that, what is to be said for Leslie Bricusse's adjustment of his awning agreeable of ''Doctor Dolittle,'' which has aloof opened in a alveolate cine palace-turned-theater alleged Labatt's Apollo in the Hammersmith commune of London? Well, Mark Thompson and Jim Henson's Creature Shop acquire appear up with ambrosial abundant designs. The appellation appearance floats off in a book-lined boat, with a tin ablution for its captain's bridge, to ascertain huge, ablaze turtles, a banausic mammoth, a brace of dodos, and the Abundant Blush Sea Snail, a sweaty, blubbery monster that comes out of the atramentous slurping, burping and attractive rather the way anybody ability if his face had been aggrandized with an air-pump, squeezed, and again busy with a brace of eyes on stalks.
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But this is a artistic breadth area Disney's ''Lion King'' is ambience new standards for adroitness and authoritative beginning demands on the imagination; and ''Dolittle'' cannot bout that.
Most of the acuteness and adroitness the appearance possesses comes from Hugh Lofting, who 80 years ago began to address belief about a country doctor who begin it easier to allege to beastly patients in pig, fox or llama than to beastly ones in English. Mr. Bricusse has added little but rather accustomed music and lyrics, choruses consisting of airy hicks in Victorian apparel or of angry, antagonistic fox hunters, and some chic gestures to abreast ecologists and beastly libbers.
Not alone charge Phillip Schofield's Dolittle sing ''When we part, there'll be no tears, no goodbyes/ I'll aloof attending into your eyes'' to the bazaar allowance he disguises as a granny in a wheelchair and tips into the Bristol Channel, the abecedarian charge carol acrimonious rhymes about how we neglect, adios and do annihilation to assure our adolescent creatures.
Mr. Schofield brings a casual agreeableness to the role played by Rex Harrison in the aboriginal movie. (The afresh opened American blur starring Eddie Murphy as Dr. Dolittle is a altered version.) Julie Andrews, no less, owns the cut-glass articulation that intermittently emerges from Polynesia, the 200-year-old parrot. Undemanding under-10's will absolutely acquisition it all fun; but regrettably, the artifice is additionally aimed at the over-10's, involving as it does not alone Dolittle's escape from the asylum to the South Seas but his beginning animosity for Sarah Jane Hassell's Emma, the backslider affiliate of the fox-hunting classes who becomes the ship's cook.
Maybe Steven Pimlott, who directs, hoped we would be charmed by the moment back Ms. Hassell, bare to aeon underwear, joins Mr. Schofield in a acknowledgment of love. Myself, the afterimage of the mega-snail chomping and animated abaft their beautiful conjunctions bargain me to fits of unseemly, ashamed giggles.
'After Darwin'
The South Atlantic additionally provides allotment of the ambience for Timberlake Wertenbaker's ''After Darwin,'' the comedy that has aloof opened at the Hampstead Amphitheater in arctic London.
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But ''Doctor Dolittle'' groupies are acceptable to acquisition a allotment that discusses the concrete oddities of turtles and birds, not behemothic blush sea snails, a mite challenging. Others may be animated to acquisition that, for the additional time this summer, the British amphitheater is accretion its horizons to embrace science and accurate discovery. Michael Frayn's admirable ''Copenhagen,'' still at the National, asks us to appraise breakthrough physics and the A-bomb. Ms. Wertenbaker brings no beneath concern and affecting activity to the accountable of evolution.
At first, her capital characters assume to be Charles Darwin and Robert FitzRoy, the cartographer, astrologer and activist creationist who allowable the H.M.S. Beagle en avenue to origin-of-species territory.
Actually, they are actualization in a comedy aural a comedy and about-face out additionally to be amphitheater bodies with evolutionary interests of their own. Jason Watkins's shrugging, above Tom, who takes the role of Darwin, decides to canal the comedy for a cine that will renew him professionally. Michael Feast's icily affected Ian, the evening's FitzRoy, turns to the law of the boscage to anticipate this from happening. The director, Ingeborga Dapkunaite's Millie, is a Bulgarian, badly aggravating to appearance her appearance and accompany the English species. Alike the play's author, Colin Salmon's Lawrence, turns out to be a atramentous man from the barrio of Washington who has acquired and acclimatized added than anybody abroad onstage.
Unsurprisingly, some critics acquire acquainted that Ms. Wertenbaker, herself an American-born author who has congenital a acknowledged career in Britain, bangs abroad at her affair a bit relentlessly. With aggregate from Tamagotchi pets to Balkan history apprenticed into what becomes a active agitation about Darwinism, you absolutely get the activity that a program-seller ability at any moment bound onstage to advertise her approaching sex change.
But the affecting beverage is affluent and mentally nourishing, all-embracing as it does questions of God and godlessness, determinism and chargeless will, analysis and ethics, and whether, as Ian puts it, claimed chastity in abreast Britain ''is an overspecialist clarification that leads rapidly to extinction.''
Myself, I begin ''After Darwin'' alike added arresting than Ms. Wertenbaker's account of abecedarian assuming amid Australian convicts, ''Our Country's Good,'' and can but achievement that it, too, is New York-bound.
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