Editing Oklahoma! (section)

===1955 film adaptation===
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The 1955 film adaptation starred [[Gordon MacRae]], [[Shirley Jones]] (in her film debut),<ref>Jones had previously performed in a stage production of ''Oklahoma!'' See: [https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85454/oklahoma ''Oklahoma!'' from Turner Classic Movies]</ref> [[Rod Steiger]], [[Charlotte Greenwood]], [[Gloria Grahame]], [[Gene Nelson]], [[James Whitmore]] and [[Eddie Albert]].  It was the only musical film directed by [[Fred Zinnemann]],<ref name="Chapin">[[Audio commentary]] by Ted Chapin and Hugh Fordin, [[CinemaScope]] version of film, 2-DVD 50th Anniversary Edition (2005), [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]]</ref> and [[Agnes de Mille]] choreographed.  It was the first feature film photographed in the [[Todd-AO]] [[70 mm film|70 mm]] [[widescreen]] process.<ref name="TCM">{{cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/85454/oklahoma |title=''Oklahoma!'' from Turner Classic Movies |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=March 7, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.in70mm.com/todd_ao/magna/index.htm |title=Magna Theatre Corporation |publisher=In70mm.com |access-date=March 7, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120307090915/http://www.in70mm.com/todd_ao/magna/index.htm |archive-date=March 7, 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

Rodgers and Hammerstein personally oversaw the film to prevent the studio from making the changes that were then typical of stage-to-film musical adaptations, such as interpolating new songs by others.  The film followed the stage version more closely than any other Rodgers and Hammerstein stage-to-film adaptation, although it divided the long first scene into several shorter scenes, changing the locations of several of the songs.  For example, "Kansas City" is performed at the train station, where Aunt Eller and other cowboys meet Will Parker just after he returns from Kansas City.  Lyrics in the song about a [[burlesque]] stripteaser were slightly changed to pass [[censorship|film censorship]].<ref name="Chapin"/>  In a nod to ''[[Green Grow the Lilacs (play)|Green Grow the Lilacs]]'', which was the basis of the musical, Jud attempts revenge on Curly and Laurey by burning a haystack they stand on, before Curly jumps down, landing on Jud and causing him to fall on his own knife.  The film omits only "It's a Scandal, It's a Outrage" and "Lonely Room".<ref name="TCM" /> The film won [[Academy Awards]] for [[Academy Award for Original Music Score|Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture]] and [[Academy Award for Sound|Best Sound, Recording]].<ref name="Oscars1956">{{cite web|url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1956 |title=The 28th Academy Awards (1956) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 20, 2011|work=oscars.org}}</ref>
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