00:00Your hair is amazing.
00:01Thank you very much.
00:02Hello, I'm Mary Testa.
00:04I play Aunt Eller in Oklahoma.
00:07Hi, my name is Daniel Kluger.
00:09I did the orchestrations for Oklahoma.
00:10I'm Shirley Jones.
00:12Hi, I'm Christine Andreas.
00:13Hi, I'm Abigail Disney, and I'm one of the producers
00:16of Oklahoma.
00:18Oklahoma is.
00:21Surprising.
00:21It's provocative.
00:22Dark.
00:23Brand new state.
00:25Radical and extraordinary.
00:26It's relevant today for young women because the themes
00:31in Oklahoma are the same as 1943.
00:33Nothing has changed in the script.
00:35So there's misogyny and.
00:37I mean, now you're talking about another time,
00:39another place, and the birthing of a nation.
00:42This particular production is looking
00:44at the birthing of a nation in a whole different light
00:46because now it's 2019, it's not 1943.
00:49That's right.
00:50I think in some interpretations of Oklahoma,
00:52it's just seen as a sexual longing, which is a typical way
00:58of reducing a woman's experience in popular culture.
01:01I think it honors and interrogates people's relationship
01:04to community and who's included and excluded.
01:08Because it's an incredible, incredible show.
01:10Incredible music.
01:12Incredible, incredibly done.
01:14Look, the undercurrents of violence and the suppression
01:18of women were in there from the minute they took pen to paper
01:22and opened that first show in 1943 on Broadway.
01:25But Daniel Fish found a way to like kind of mine it,
01:29like ore, for all of this commentary
01:32about the American structure.
01:35And I didn't want to see my daughters grow up in a world
01:38where they had kind of absorbed a code
01:41that was so inhospitable to them.
01:44In our production, the women are very strong
01:46and the women sort of, even though the script is the same,
01:50kind of run their own lives and make their own choices
01:53and are very strong.
01:54I think they're stronger than the men.
