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ANTHONY LEJEUNE

RONALD REAGAN once said that he couldn’t read his official papers the previous night because The Sound of Music was on television. No wonder he swept the country! Here, plainly, was a politician with a proper sense of values. The Sound of Music, hated by curmudgeons but loved by almost everyone else, represents well enough the greatest American art form of the twentieth century, the musical play. Now, just fifty years after Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, is a suitable time to reconsider, in wonderment, the treasures we were given and how much we have lost.

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ANTHONY LEJEUNE

RONALD REAGAN once said that he couldn’t read his official papers the previous night because The Sound of Music was on television. No wonder he swept the country! Here, plainly, was a politician with a proper sense of values. The Sound of Music, hated by curmudgeons but loved by almost everyone else, represents well enough the greatest American art form of the twentieth century, the musical play. Now, just fifty years after Oklahoma! opened on Broadway, is a suitable time to reconsider, in wonderment, the treasures we were given and how much we have lost.