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''And when we say, "Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!"''
''We're only sayin', "You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!''
''Oklahoma, O.K.!"'' }}
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The musical is a radical departure from the mostly fluffy musical comedies that had preceded it. It integrated the book (the spoken dialogue) with the music without attempting to justify it. Its use of dance as adding to the plot and atmosphere was also a change from the showgirls of previous musicals. It was not the first to use such techniques (''[[Show Boat]]'', which also featured lyrics and libretto written by Hammerstein, predated it by nearly 20 years), but its impact is unmistakable.
''Oklahoma!'' was successfully adapted to film in 1955 (which was added to the [[National Film Registry]] in 2007), and has been [[Revival|revived]] numerous times on Broadway and in London.
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* [[Annoying Laugh]]: Gertie, full-stop.{{context}}<!-- MOD: Keep going. -->
* [[Anti-Villain]]: As creepy as he is, it's hard not to feel at least a ''little'' sorry for Jud, with the way he's ostracized by the town and seems to be completely starved for affection. Oh, and did we mention the fact that the hero tries to encourage Jud to ''kill himself before he had even done anything wrong?''
* [[California Doubling|Arizona Doubling]]: Nogales, Arizona stands in for Oklahoma in the 1955 film.
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* [[Beta Couple]]: Will and Ado Annie
* [[Book Ends]]: The play and movie begin with Curly singing, "Oh What a Beautiful Mornin'" before asking Laurey out to the dance, and end with everyone singing the song while celebrating Curley's and Laurey's marriage and Oklahoma's becoming a state.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: In the play, "Kansas City" had a part with Will singing about how one of the burlesque girls he saw undressed herself to prove that she had a shapely figure, as opposed to a padded outfit ("when she began to peel/everything she had was positively real..."). In the movie, Will sings about how when she danced, her body moved naturally ("when she started dancing her dancing made me feel/everything she had was positively real").
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* [[Car Song]]: "The Surrey with the Fringe on Top" could be considered the 1900s equivalent.
* [[Casanova]]: Ali Hakim.
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* [[Evil Sounds Deep]]: Jud Fry is always cast as a bass.
** Not always. The 1979 revival saw Martin Vidnovic play Jud, and "Lonely Room" was transposed up a third (still keeping it in baritone territory, but with a tessitura higher than a bass's song would have.)
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* [[Fauxreigner]]: Ali Hakim can be one depending on the production. Despite the character claiming to be Persian, the part was written for a "Jewish Comic"-type actor, and it is in line with the characterization for Hakim to be an outsider/more worldly than the characters (which a Jew from New York City would be in the setting), but still lying about his background in being American-born. The role finally went to an actual Muslim (although not an Iranian) in a major production when the 2002 Broadway revival gave the part to Aasif Mandvi.
* [[Feuding Families]]: Not families per se, but the farmers and cowboys otherwise fit this trope.
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* [[Love Triangle]]: Curly, Laurey, and Jud; Will, Annie, and Ali Hakim
* [[Madness Mantra]]: {{spoiler|"Think you're better than me..."}}
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* [[Mobile Kiosk]]: Ali Hakim the peddler has one of these.
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* [[Snake Oil Salesman]]: Ali Hakim
* [[Stalker with a Crush]]: Jud.
* [[Technology Marches On]]: "Everything's up to date in Kansas City/They've gone as fur as they can go/They built a bildin seven stories high/As tall as a building orta grow" only gets rolled eyes in KCMO today, but at the time of the Oklahoma land rush (1907) this was already out of date. Kansas City was seventeen stories high, not seven. Then again, this may be [[lampshaded]] deliberately to make the characters involved appear to be backward hillbillies.
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Some variations of Laurey and Ado Annie.
* [[Tsundere]]: Laurey.
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