Date:  Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:00AM PDT)
From:    John French <mosshead7@yahoo.com>
Subject:  OklaHomo: The Musical Starring Mike Jerrick
To:  redeye@foxnews.com

Please note: I forgot to put in that John English is played by Andrew Levy. And, of course, John English represents John French. This edit will be made for the completed content in my new e-book Everyday There's Something 2008 soon to be released on mystrawhat.com

 

Oklahomo: The Musical Starring Mike Jerrick and ..

 
In an effort to try and counter the democratic juggernaut running for president, Hillary Clinton, as the republican party has no one to compete, FOX is showing how “fair and balanced” it really is and is trying to appeal to a more liberal population of the country with its new musical, Oklahomo.
 
The superbly splendid show is an updated version of the classic musical and is more like Oklahoma meets Broke Back Mountain. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein meets Tennessee Williams. The songs are tight and relevant to today and draw from such compassionate emotion and range of strong feelings that cut like a knife until it tears your heart in two.
 
Mike Jerrick defines what talented actor he is playing the lead character, Curly McLain, who is in love with the towns biggest cabaret star, Bill Scholz, at the Life’s a Drag Cabaret Theatre. The theatre is owned by an ex-Madame of a long gone brothel when the town was less cultured. Scholz’s character, Mistress Laurey Williams, is both funny and tragic and may be interpreted by some savvy theatre followers as a clown from more traditional, ancient Roman and Greek based theatre.
 
Oklahomo not only offers one but two love triangles. Yes, Curly loves Mistress Laurey Williams and Laurey Williams is loved by Jud fry played by Greg Gutfeld. However, the other triangle is commentary on how a cowboy just can’t openly love a drag queen cabaret star in a place like Oklahoma and needs to keep appearances by seemingly being in love with a real woman.
 
Curly makes out like he loves a beautiful blond anchorwoman named Julie West played by Juliet Huddy. Again this is more of a show for appearances yet again Curly surely realizes he needs Juliet Huddy’s character, Julie West, and cannot make it without her. Thus, Curly despises the two men also courting Oklahoma’s hottest blond anchorwoman, Julie West, but tolerates one more than the other as he realizes he can mold and manipulate the obvious stupidity of the attention seeking brute, Jake Lion.
 
Jake Lion played by Animal Planet Dave is tired of being on the prowl and tired of his career going unnoticed so he sees Julie West as a perfect match to both help gain exposure and also simplify the confusing world of dating. Though where Jake Lion may know how to make wild animals submissive with his big dose of testosterone and brute strength, he doesn’t know women and is overly frustrated by most of them. And so he is totally smitten when a gorgeous, smart, visible blond anchorwoman whose desperate biological clock is ticking pays major attention to him.
 
Curly basically allows this to happen between Julie and Jake as he is fine with courting Julie without having to actually commit to marriage so he can keep things open enough for his blossoming relationship with Mistress Laurey Williams. Just the same, Curly also wins out by having Jake court Julie as this preoccupies the time of Julie and allows Curly time to spend with Mistress Laurey Williams whose demanding performance schedule has little time for romance other than steamy sessions with Curly in her dressing room or apartment above the cabaret theatre late late at night. Curly easily manipulates the dumb Jake Lion who Curly also likes because he has to frequently travel to exotic locations which gives Curly his room to operate his schemes.
 
On the other hand, Curly does not approve of a mysterious young poet who has caught the attention of Oklahoma’s hottest anchorwoman, Julie West, by emailing poems and insightful and sometimes humorous commentary into the newsroom of her television station, WXXP 8. Curly is automatically threatened by this mystic poet and his engaging ways which intrigues Julie West and the other women of the station. The young mystic poet, John England, played by Andrew Levy, represents the bigger world outside of Oklahoma and poses the threat of Julie West leaving Oklahoma behind to be based on the east coast and ramble on to cover life on the road criss-crossing the States.
 
The tensions brew and rise to a big blow-out during the town’s first “Multi Culture Appreciation Day Parade.” Jud Fry is an easy scapegoat for Curly. Nobody likes him or trusts him due to his seedy family history and his loner, drunken ways, which has never done anything other than add to his horrible, questionable existence. Everybody knows Jud covets the beauty and fame of Mistress Laurey Williams and despises the approval Curly receives from her and everybody in general. In fact, Judy Fry speaks very little other than words to startle Mistress Larey Williams in such a creepy manner and to try and belittle and offend Curly anyway he can to try and provoke him. Everyone knows he’d probably like to kill Curly if given the opportunity. Jail would be a haven for his miserable life.
 
The Multi Culture Appreciation Day Parade is an all day affair in full throttle and while the town is out in the streets celebrating, Curly takes advantage of the ostracized Jud Fry who is drunk in the ally behind the cabaret theatre, Life’s a Drag. Curly has thought this up wonderfully and sets-Jud-up to be framed for burning the place down. With total diabolical precision Curly succeeds in luring John England to the point of origin while the fire is raging on by making him think that his beloved Julie West is trapped inside there.
 
Both Jud Fry and John England die at the hands of Curly McLain who is the first to discover the charred bodies and piece it all together for the townspeople who unquestionably believe Curly and his all American good looks and smooth talk.
 
Curly McLain wins out by having two of his nemeses that loved his two loves perish in a fire he started – In addition Curly wins by having Mistresses Laurey Williams’ all encompassing venue for employment burn to the ground. Mistresses Laurey Williams laments its loss and feels there is nothing left in Oklahoma for her now but bad vibes.
 
All along Curly McLain has been working on Jake Lion to move to Las Vegas to work with him in a show where the cowboy and animal trainer could dazzle a packed house together night after night – And, now they would have Mistresses Laurey Williams to work into the show – Moreover, of course, Julie West wins the attention of a big TV NEWS station in Vegas and is offered an anchor position there.
 
Therefore, in conclusion, Curly, Mistresses Laurey Williams, Jake Lion and Julie West all ride off into the sunset to start a new life in show business out in Vegas.
 
The End.
 
Oklahomo: The Musical runs 120 minutes w/ one intermission.
 
 
 
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