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May 05, 2018The_Most_Casual_Observer rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
🌽🐘👁 I am surprised that no one seems to realize that the whole musical is about sex from beginning to end. It starts right off with the cowboys showing Aunt Eller the Little Wonder, with a naked woman pictured inside. We have the girl who "cain't say no," and her boyfriend who says their children "better look a lot like me." Jud looks at porno in the smokehouse, and stalks Laurey, peeping in her window. Ali, who gets all the funny lines, tries to get a girl to go to Catoosa with him for a weekend in a hotel. He has to marry her when her shotgun-toting father catches them. Will sings about seeing a stripper in Kansas City. This is just off the top of my head, so forgive any omissions and inaccuracies. R&H musicals were at their best when they were about some major topic, e.g., "South Pacific" is about racism. It's like there's some conspiracy to pretend these shows are air-headed family entertainment. And check out 'internetconnect,' commenting in 2021, who found the Shirley MacLaine version of the show! Through an alternate universe?