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The 18 pages that link to Oklahoma!, each with the reason it gives.

• Musical theatreBroader topic: Its songs, choreography, and plot form a notably integrated whole.

• Oscar Hammerstein IIBroader topic: Its integrated songs and story established the partnership’s distinctive approach.

• Richard RodgersBroader topic: Its integrated songs and dances helped establish the Rodgers–Hammerstein approach.

• Broadway musicalBroader topic: Its success helped establish the integrated musical as a dominant Broadway model.

• Book musicalBroader topic: Its songs and dances develop character and story within a continuous dramatic world.

• Theatre GuildBroader topic: The Guild produced the musical that launched the Rodgers and Hammerstein partnership.

• American musical theatreBroader topic: Its songs, dances, and plot are closely joined in a landmark integrated production.

• Rodgers and HammersteinBroader topic: Its opening and dance-driven plot established the partnership’s approach in their first Broadway collaboration.

• Western swingBroader topic: Oklahoma was a major home base for influential early Western swing performers.

• South PacificCompared with: Its integrated musical form preceded South Pacific, but its setting and social conflicts differ.

• Agnes de MilleBroader topic: Its dream ballet integrated dance into the musical’s narrative and established de Mille’s Broadway breakthrough.

• Hugh JackmanBroader topic: Jackman’s 1998 London production as Curly helped bring him wider attention.

• Show tuneBroader topic: Its songs, including “Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin’,” exemplify musical numbers integrated with a story.

• Gore VidalRelated: His time there preceded his schooling in Washington and left a lasting place in his personal history.

• Brooks AtkinsonBroader topic: Its integration of songs, story, and dance illustrates the Broadway form Atkinson reviewed beyond straight plays.

• Gloria GrahameCompared with: Her role as Ado Annie shows her performing comedy and musical theatre beyond noir and melodrama.

• Shirley MacLaineBroader topic: MacLaine was an understudy in the original Broadway production before an understudy role changed her career.

• KansasCompared with: Oklahoma shares Kansas’s southern border and much of its plains geography.