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The Development Of Music and Dance as Storytelling Devices in American Musical Theatre Before Oklahoma hit the Broadway stage, "musical comedies" as they were then known consisted of songs written mostly to become hits or to sell tickets, as shown by the universal appeal of many showstoppers by Lorenz Hart and Cole Porter, for example. After Oklahoma, the composers and lyricists suddenly became dramatists as well as songwriters, and everything that was included and incorporated into the musical had to serve a purpose in relation to the story. Therefore, not only did the shows need big hits to become big successes, but their hits needed to have an actual purpose and function to tell the story of the musical. In Oklahoma's case, this was the story of "Green Grow The Lilacs", a play written by Lynn Riggs. The influence of Oklahoma on the development of music in American musical theatre is...

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