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Poster for Oklahoma!

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Poster for <em>Oklahoma!</em>

Professional tours of hit musicals such as Oklahoma!by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein helped revive New Zealand amateur operatic societies after the Second World War. The production that this colourful poster advertises toured in 1950 under the auspices of J. C. Williamson.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-C-OPERA-1950-01

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Lindis Taylor, Opera and musical theatre – Light opera and musical theatre, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/41875/poster-for-oklahoma (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Lindis Taylor, published 18 June 2013.