Oklahoma has always been my favorite musical. My father used to direct plays, and this is one I'll never forget! The entire cast was brilliant! The dancing was out of this world! Usually, the dream sequence is my least favorite part of the play, not with this version; it was breathtaking! The actor playing Curly was so amazing, made me feel like I was listening to Gordon McCrea! The actress Laurie has a beautiful voice, a bit operatic for the part but it was still magical. It was especially WONDERFUL to hear the actress who played Ado Annie who could actually sing! I've always wondered what that would sound like and now I know! Wonderful performance from everyone!

How can you not like this performance. Beautiful voices and a fabulous orchestra. Dancing and choreography is amazing . Great direction.

I'm from Perú and this musical made me love Oklahoma the time I first listened to it on the radio in a show called "Teatro Musical Norteamericano" in Lima when I could only speak and understand basic English. It was a brand new love for the brand new state!!! May God grant me the miracle to ever visit Oklahoma before I die.

When I was 16 I sang and danced in the chorus of our local theater's production of Oklahoma. I'm 62 now and watching this brought back such wonderful, warm memories. Excellent job!

This was my first stage musical! I’ve been lucky enough to play Will Parker 3 times since (amateur) but it led to my life time love of the stage, now 40 years later!

As someone from the Great state of Oklahoma I love this musical, and let me be the first to say yall are welcome to come to oklahoma anytime we'd love to have yall.

Ado Annie has the cutest Irish-Oklahoman accent I've ever heard. Wonderful performances all around! Absolutely love Nathaniel Hackmann, who came back to the U.S. after this to appear as Quasimodo in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at the Fulton Theater in Lancaster, PA. He was phenomenal!

The choreography is absolutely stunning!! And I loved the minimalist design of the production!! This is one of the classic musicals where less is more.

At the age of 13, I was introduced to Oklahoma in a School Play. Got hooked the first time I saw it, I bought tickets for the three remaining nights. Just turned 60 now and nothing has changed, went to see an amateur Drama group perform Oklahoma last year, Even though I'm male I'm not ashamed to say I was emotional. Just watched this right through, Felt just the same and want to see it again, I like a lot of Musicals, but nothing has ever beaten Oklahoma in my world. Loved it

From what I've read, 'Oklahoma!' was a HUGE hit when it first played London in 1947. Even the future Queen Elizabeth was a fan. The Curly, Howard Keel was invited to a party at the home of Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, a major badge of honor among theatre people at the time.

I've seen a number of productions of Oklahoma! -both professional and amateur - and have been lucky enough to perform in one, and never before have I seen the dream ballet danced by the main cast instead of doubles. My jaw hit the floor!

I have only just now discovered the BBC Proms & can't get enough of all of you, director, orchestra and singers! I love all the Roger's & Hammerstein musicals, know the words by heart, been singing them since I was little (my mom was a pianist). Listening to your orchestra is like watching the films for the first time. Tap Your Troubles Away is so exciting every time I watch it. You are all just wonderful!

The first movie I watched in a theater was ‘Oklahoma’. Living in Oklhoma, I loved it at the age of eight. Thank you.

The most romantic Curly I've ever seen. What a treat to see this! Thank you!

Words cannot convey how marvelous this performance of "Oklahoma" was. What a breathtaking production at The Round, with an all-star cast of modern theatrical greats. The choreography, music and staging were superb. Nathaniel Hackmann as Curly and Scarlett Strallen as Laurey gave a performance matching their film predecessors, the great Gordon Macrae and legendary Shirley Jones. Ado Annie was marvelously played by Lizzy Connolly with an acerbic wit and naivete. It was equally fantastic to see the great Robbie Fairchild play Will Parker, whose role here can't even begin to compare to what he did as Jerry Mulligan in "An American in Paris," on Broadway and at the The Dominion in the West End in 2017. His full dancing, singing and acting abilities were on another plain and beyond description. David Seadon-Young gave a chilling, riveting performance of Jud and none of this would have been possible without the extraordinary orchestral talents of John Wilson. Bravo to this masterpiece in theatre and many thanks for sharing.

Omigoodness I just discovered Proms with John Wilson orchestra and I am moved to tears. Nothing is more enjoyable to hear beautiful music emanating from Broadway and done so fantastic by Wilson…. I am binging on all his performances this afternoon and it is now 11:30 pm. I am moved to tears.

This Curly is so lovable.

An outstanding version of original Oklahoma, a real masterpiece! BBC's podcasting is still a first class one, hats down! BRAVO from France! Emmanuel from Paris

As homegrown Oklahoman, I loved this amazing production. Its been 30 years since I first watched Oklahoma! as a kid and still love it.

On opening night of Oklahoma in 1943 they had a third empty seats and so went out on the street and gave soldiers on leave free tickets to fill the house. That was the last time they had an empty seat for Oklahoma for the next two years! The soldiers, many leaving to fight in WWII loved the simple and pure vision of the musical.

About 1965 in Pecos, Texas High School, my sister, Linda, and I did a short skit from the song, “Cowboys and Farmers Should Be Friends” from Oklahoma. Sadly and tragically , Linda died around the same time that Debbie Reynolds and her daughter, Carrie Fisher, died. My heart breaks with longing to be re-united with Linda , and the rest of my beloved family who’ve have passed on and shed their earthly bodies!!! If I do say so, Linda and I were pretty good in our skit!!!

Wonderful , enjoyed it so much. The singing and dancing was just spectacular and I fell inn love with Will Parker! A wonderful actor and dancer.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone sing “Oh What a Beautiful Morning” quite like Nate Hackmann. Likely the reason they chose him as Curly for the new recording!

The first show I ever saw; Aged 4. Fell in love with Rogers & Hammerstein. Still in love...

The Oklahoma Movie of 1955 was the second musical I ever saw. The first is the one which had the biggest impression on me and was the Carousel movie made in 1956. Both of course were by the best of them all - Rogers and Hammerstein.

Thanks for posting this wonderful musical! ..I love aunt Eller

Found this by accident and i love it. well done, a brilliant performance

If you Love this musical you should see the excellent recreation of the 1943 production done by the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. They reproduced the actual scenery, costumes etc an amazing feat. It's like seeing the original production.

This man who plays Curly melts my heart!! OH MY GOSH! He is incredible!!

What a delicious treat. Thanks so much . Please keep on showing these kind of musical genre . God bless. 👌😊🙏🏼🌹

I have got to say that David Seadon-Young did a phenomenal job as Jud Fry and especially with the sequence around Lonely Room.

Greetings and salutations from New Brunswick, Canada. I just stumbled into this marvelous production by accident this evening and had an instant flashback to 62 years ago almost to the day (Nov 24, 1959) when I stood on the stage of my high school and as Curly, belted out "Oh what a beautiful morning" to start our three night sold out run. As I watched and sang along this evening, I could remember all the other cast member's names and for some reason, I can't recall what I had for supper tonight but I remember every lyric to every song. It is certainly a timeless show and kudos to all involved in this production.

Can't help but love this presentation. The singing, dancing, musicians, are amazing. The composers are among the greatest. Who can watch these songs without out having your heart strings from pulsing when you hear "Poor Judd is Dead."

Wow! This is the first time I've seen an uncut version of this! Never saw the Broadway production. I played Laurey in an amateur production in Corpus Christi, Texas many years ago. We did it in Theatre-in-the-Round, so it was open like this, with performers making their entrances via the aisles in the audience. This is a fantastic production and I'm so pleased to have found it!

I could listen to this man sing “oh what a beautiful mornin” forever

Wonderful revival.....Nathaniel Hackmann has a career ahead of him, just you watch! "People Will Say We're in Love" was simply fabulous.

Oklahoma was the first adult musical experience in my life. This performance is spectacular....the acting and the choreography and the singing....

I first heard Oklahoma when I checked out the LP album from the music library of the college I was attending in 1978, having only been aware of one song ,” Oh what a beautiful morning “ . I fell in love with it and the works of Rodgers and Hammerstein. I finally got to see the stage production of Oklahoma ,but in London of all places , and with Hugh Jackman as Curly , in 1999. This was a terrific production and if I’m not mistaken the Brits have always had a particular love for this musical over most of any that crossed the pond. I believe I read somewhere that the Queen and Prince Philip had adopted one of the songs as their own theme while courting , “People will say we’re in love “. I very much appreciate this production,the wonderful cast and sensational orchestra and all artists and workers involved in this performance at Royal Albert and the broadcast and the KZfaq upload. Thank you 🙏.

15 min's.in and absolutely dumb struck! This is BRILLIANT! This production is glorious!

Really well acted and possibly the best version I have seen. I especially loved the guy that played Judd Fry.

This was a wonderful production. Nathaniel Hackmann did a wonderful job as Curly and Robert Fairchild excelled in his singing and dancing - my God what was that pirouette-triple jump combination? Interesting that he and David Seadon-Young, who played Judd Frye, went on to star in An American in Paris.

I love love love that everyone is just appreciating this and not comparing it to Hugh, Gabrielle, and co.

Curly has a great voice!

Outstanding performances, ... great show from my childhood.

I watched the 2012 Proms Broadway last night. It was fantastic. Here we are 5 years later. The orchestra looks so much smaller, and different players. Maestro Wilson appears slower and a little more tired than he did back then. This proms is great too. Thanks.

I never get over this High School performance. A High School performance!

Never gets old. Watching all over again. Bet I'll watch this again and again.

Wonderful production of a superb musical. Sincere thanks to the British PROMS.....

Awesome production! I've seen many and this is tops in so many ways. Everyone was great. However, I especially liked Will Parker. I always wanted to be an Oklahoma cowboy like him. I'm an Oklahoman, but more of a city-slicker. Anyway, such a marvelous show which will provide lasting memories. Congratulations to everyone involved!

If I had been present at 28:40 I would never have stopped applauding. The pinnacle, the peak

I absolutely love the musical Oklahoma!

This was brilliant thanks for allowing us to watch it again

SO'S YOU CAN TELL EM APART is such a great addition. Not sure about the other additions as much, but that one made me laugh.

Subtitle: The Psycho in the Smokehouse. You never got that bottomless sense of menace from the politely watered-down 1950s film, even from the brilliant Rod Steiger. This Proms production is spectacular, with uniformly lush voices and gifted dancers. Staging the original-length dream ballets was a bold choice that paid off.

Most beautiful moment is when they reprise 'People Will Say We're in Love' at rough 2:30:00 - divine.

Thanks!! I love John Wilson. Great conductor.

A true Broadway classic nicely presented. Thanks

This is a wonderful production. What performances! The dancing is ballet company level (not cowboy typical!) but I loved every minute! Musical are fantasy, which is why we get lost in them. I certainly do.

Las peliculas MUSICALES son EXTRAORDINARIAS !!!! esta de Oklahoma , Freedom, wethsay histoyi etc. etc. son geniales, son como OPERAS americanas contemporaneas, reitero son muy BUENAS !!!! saludos de Peru.

Everyone looks so happy, especially the orchestra, enjoying the fabulous music. Disproving evolution.

There is perfection, and then there are the crimson tears of awe and wonder. Ten out of nine you good and gentle heart's. Ten out of nine.

I could listen to this song all day long not get tired of it

The fist time i saw this was when I was really young and i still remember and i love it❤

This guy, Nicholas Hartmann, is just as good, if not better, than Hugh Jackman as Curly. What a beautiful voice, and great acting, too!

Opening night was big success. But Rodgers and Hammerstein still weren't sure that it was a hit. The notices in the morning papers were all rave reviews. When Rodgers and Hammerstein went to the theater that afternoon they looked out the windows of the cab and saw a line of people starting at the box office, stretching down the block, and around the corner down the side street. Hammerstein turned to Rodgers and said, "I think that we have a hit!" I read that it was a true story.

I'm impressed BBC. // I love Broadway musicals

It's interesting to hear the explanation about the plot and history in the introduction. I know the story and play but I always learn something new. Thank you for uploading this.

This is so, so beautiful!!! I wish one day to watch in theaters!!!!

Nathaniel Hackmann & Scarlett Strallen Made An Awesome Couple As Curly & Laurey. Being A Musical Freak They Were Just As Good As Gordon Mcrae & Shirley Jones. So Were Lizzy Connelly & Robbie Fairchild As Will Parker & Ado Arnie As Gene Nelson & Gloria Graham. The choreography was well arranged too!!!

Oh my goodness. What a wonderful production. No idea how I missed this. Only 2017. Isn’t Scarlett Strallen beautiful. I’m now watching this at Wyndham’s Theatre in London. Seen it many times and it’s fabulous.

Beautiful performances ALL ! Best Ado Annie EVER...

Allways loved musicals and singers

The star here is the Hall itself. Built in 1871 it is still in use 150 years later, still functional and fashionable in this time of disposable buildings!

No words can describe how beautiful this production is.

Gee. I thought the British hate the whole genre of American musicals. Of course apart from these spectacular classics (Brigadoon, West Side Story, Oklahoma, South Pacific, Carousel, My Fair Lady) of R&H, L&L, Sondheim & Bernstein - the original wave, and very few since (Godspell, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) who can blame them. After the overture and before receiving the first wave of applause, the conductor looked a bit terrified. FANTASTIC production -- thank you.

Always loved this musical…cry every time I hear the muscular!

Absolutely stunning performance thank you love ❤️ it !

I did not know BBC Proms had such a nice opening (for the TV presentation of itself). I love when the lights turn into jellyfish. ^____^ The way she introduces it is like the way I in America might introduce something English or European. It's a foreign story to her. ^____^ Oklahoma in London. It's different but it's cute. ^____^

Beautifully done and acted I wish I had seen this live Oklahoma is my favorite musical

Love to get to actually see the orchestra too. BBC Proms orchestra is always really really good. ^____^

My first 78RPM album (two 10.inch discs, 12 minutes) when I was a 12yo n 1949 was OKLAHOMA! Years later I would see the movie with Rod Steiger This is a delightful new view. Thank you, Gertrude Cummins.

The look on Aunt Eller's face at 1:12:00 (right after "People Will Say We're In Love").

I love this. I've seen Oklahoma several times but it never gets old. I'm in Boston and I'm wondering what this early 20th Century Western American English does to the British ear. Seems to be received quite well.

This is absolutely wonderful. Thank you!

omg this ado annie is so precious

R and H are the American guys who put the Operetta Age into the history bin. This was the first of their string of amazing hits that changed the London and Broadway scene. Although my favorite by far is Carousel, you can see its DNA in Oklahoma. Some of the most beautiful music ever scored in the English language, IMO.

This production has to compete with the best production of a musical ever, the Royal National Theatre production that premiered on July 15, 1998. We saw it live and still get goosebumps remembering how incredible it was. You can view clips from it on KZfaq but the best way is to get the DVD. This production was a staged concert version and couldn't match a fully staged production. But it was really well done and captured the heart of the show. The Orchestra was sized to fit in a Broadway pit and they were excellent, as was the conductor. The cast was constrained to a small stage but the director and choreographer made it work. I think it is the second best production we've ever seen.

GORGEOUS ORCHESTRATION(S) AND VOICES!!

I love this and I am learning to the dance scenes to this

A great and delightful performance, badly marred by failure of audio/video sync, at least on KZfaq. I played it on two different platforms and observed the same problem. At the beginning, the A/V sync is perfect, but it drifts as the show progresses. I was noticing it by about 1/3 of the way through, and by my perception, by the end the audio was trailing the video by over one second. I know I'm more sensitive to this than most people (otherwise there would be more comments about it here, though I'm not the first to remark on it), but it's so bad that in the second half I was constantly aware of it and could hardly bear to watch the faces. And that cuts deep into the joy of seeing and hearing it. Of course, this is an unauthorized upload, so I shouldn't blame the BBC. (The uploader is an obvious pseudonym.)

Truly a splendid adventure - in memory and live today. Bravissimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Robbie Fairchild is a wonder. I'm beginning to think he can do anything. Someone please put that man on the big screen in a musical! He's the closest thing we have to Gene Kelly.

I too have visited the great State of Oklahoma [many times] from green Tulsa to the far-out panhandle...

Throughly enjoyed this top entertainment. Actors and singers superb. A well directed and staged performance from start to finish. 👍😉😄

And now this Curly is BIFF TANNEN in Back to the Future.

Very charming rendition, but I wonder if any of the cast have heard a southern American native speak?

2:35:51 for anyone who's in the mood for the title song.

We did this musical at school in year 6 and i must say it is wayyyy better when professional actors do it than when a bunch of 11 years olds do

Possibly the Perfect Stage Musical.

Thank You for posting this.