Ok.....lahoma=sex?
For my studios Homework I have to watch Rodgers' and Hammerstein's big 5 musicals: Carousel, South Pacific, The Sound of Music, The King and I and....Oklahoma! For those who knew me in High School they know that I did a musical called Oklahoma....but there is so much more to it than that.
I was a little itty bitty freshman and I actually got a lead....that was awesome..blah,blah, blah. What it did though was connect me to the seniors of that year. I was hanging out with all the people who were about to graduate and enter into the adult world. Not to say that I wasn't mature....but they were experienced in socializing and filled with a little more knowledge and were actually ready to become interesting members of society; and they were hanging out with me, basically still a school knowledgable person.
Anyway...for those who know the story Oklahoma meant sex. With one of the senior cast members who was dating like.....7 other girls or some shit...I remember when his own friends punished him....they wanted me to pretend I was pregnant...that was fucked up! Anyway, I've come to terms with that....but that still associates it to sex.
Then there was the show itself....who was the leading male opposite me? Jose Aguilar! That mother fucker can sing. OMG....I mean like, I wasn't attracted to him at all, but when he sang I swear I'd cream my pants a little. Not EVERY time he sang mind you but whenever he performed, he's just a really amazing vocalist and damn. So he was Curly. And honestly, if you listen to the music and lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein, its beautiful and moving; and Jose would literally be singing Laurie (me) those songs. Totally hott!
And then to top everything off with what I feel, my favorite male actor in the world has played Curly and sung these seductive, lyrical, inspiring songs. And honestly I already thought he was hott as a big strong man in X-Men and Van Helsing and his action flicks. Hugh Jackman. Whom since starting to appreciate as an actor have written a paper for a college course on. I researched him and his body of work. Thats when I bought a couple of his movies including Oklahoma!
And then because I love Musical Theatre so much I've just come to love the show so much that even the Shirley Jones* version of the movie makes me have like flashbacks to all the sexual imagery. Worse still the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs (homework too) is just like the musical and I have this blended cast of people in my head playing these various characters. Sometimes stage imagery (school or professional) sometimes movie senery.
I don't know what I'm saying anymore, but I love OKLAHOMA! Not only do I seriously enjoying watching it and listening to its soundtrack but I love that has passioned me so much that I wrote a blog.
*BTW Shirley Jones is fucking AWESOME! Her career started on stage with South Pacific as an ensemble member...Oklahoma started her film career and she has since then steadily been working either in films, television, or on the stage. The Partridge Family anyone?
I was a little itty bitty freshman and I actually got a lead....that was awesome..blah,blah, blah. What it did though was connect me to the seniors of that year. I was hanging out with all the people who were about to graduate and enter into the adult world. Not to say that I wasn't mature....but they were experienced in socializing and filled with a little more knowledge and were actually ready to become interesting members of society; and they were hanging out with me, basically still a school knowledgable person.
Anyway...for those who know the story Oklahoma meant sex. With one of the senior cast members who was dating like.....7 other girls or some shit...I remember when his own friends punished him....they wanted me to pretend I was pregnant...that was fucked up! Anyway, I've come to terms with that....but that still associates it to sex.
Then there was the show itself....who was the leading male opposite me? Jose Aguilar! That mother fucker can sing. OMG....I mean like, I wasn't attracted to him at all, but when he sang I swear I'd cream my pants a little. Not EVERY time he sang mind you but whenever he performed, he's just a really amazing vocalist and damn. So he was Curly. And honestly, if you listen to the music and lyrics of Rodgers and Hammerstein, its beautiful and moving; and Jose would literally be singing Laurie (me) those songs. Totally hott!
And then to top everything off with what I feel, my favorite male actor in the world has played Curly and sung these seductive, lyrical, inspiring songs. And honestly I already thought he was hott as a big strong man in X-Men and Van Helsing and his action flicks. Hugh Jackman. Whom since starting to appreciate as an actor have written a paper for a college course on. I researched him and his body of work. Thats when I bought a couple of his movies including Oklahoma!
And then because I love Musical Theatre so much I've just come to love the show so much that even the Shirley Jones* version of the movie makes me have like flashbacks to all the sexual imagery. Worse still the play Green Grow the Lilacs by Lynn Riggs (homework too) is just like the musical and I have this blended cast of people in my head playing these various characters. Sometimes stage imagery (school or professional) sometimes movie senery.
I don't know what I'm saying anymore, but I love OKLAHOMA! Not only do I seriously enjoying watching it and listening to its soundtrack but I love that has passioned me so much that I wrote a blog.
*BTW Shirley Jones is fucking AWESOME! Her career started on stage with South Pacific as an ensemble member...Oklahoma started her film career and she has since then steadily been working either in films, television, or on the stage. The Partridge Family anyone?