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original production, and conducted by UNCSA Chancellor and world renowned conductor John Mauceri. It has also been reported that Arthur Laurents changed portions of the dialogue for the UNCSA production.
In May 2011, UNCSA presented Oklahoma! as an all-school musical, once again conducted by Mauceri with direction by UNCSA alumnus Terrence Mann. Notably, the production utilized archival photography, original design notes, Miles White's "swatch book", Robert Russell Bennett's original 24-piece orchestrations, and interviews with the surviving members of the original cast (including Celeste Holm and Joan Roberts) to replicate the original 1943 Broadway production as closely as possible, with the participation of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization and Gemze de Lappe, who also recreated Agnes de Mille's choreography. The attempt was noted by Ted Chapin, the then-president of the Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization, as unprecedented in the musical's history, with theater historian Ethan Mordden highlighting the …