Oklahoma to be performed

On Saturday, March 1, residents have the opportunity to enjoy a live production of Rogers and Hammerstein Oklahoma. The performance is directed and produced by Tony Phillips who brought The Sound of Music and High School Musical to Millen in 2007.

Millen Better Hometown and Millen/Jenkins County Chamber of Commerce, sponsors of the production, invite the public to take advantage of this opportunity to see live theater. The performance will be staged in Millen's Pal Theater at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the chamber office on Cotton Avenue, and will be available at the ticket window the day of the performance. For more information, call 478- 982-5595.

Oklahoma, Rodgers & Hammerstein's first collaboration, remains, in many ways, their most innovative, having set the standards and established the rules of musical theatre still being followed today. Set in a Western Indian territory just after the turn of the century, the high-spirited rivalry between the local farmers and cowboys provides the colorful background against which Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a winsome farm girl, play out their love story. Although the road to true love never runs smooth, with these two headstrong romantics holding the reins, love's journey is as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country road. That they will succeed in making a new life together we have no doubt, and that this new life will begin in a brand-new state provides the ultimate climax to the triumphant Oklahoma.

"This has turned out to be an amazing production. Much like The Sound of Music, this classic Oklahoma tells an amazing story about neighbors at the turn of the century," director Tony Phillips said. "The story gets told through the trials and tribulations of two separate love triangles. Two men have their eye on Laurey, the leading lady, and two other men have their eye on Ado Annie, her best friend. The story is funny and heartfelt all at the same time."