Posted April 8, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Right now, it’s trendy to crank out anti-gun art. While not all artistic types are anti-gunners–I happen to know quite a few who are very pro-gun, as a matter of fact–most tend to be. They’re often safe inside a bubble where they’re told over and over again that an anti-gun message is a winning strategy.

Unfortunately, the “brains” behind an anti-gun version of the Broadway classic “Oklahoma” just found out the hard way that such thinking isn’t necessarily supported by reality.

The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, and so is my blood pressure, thanks to the revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Oklahoma!”

In director Daniel Fish’s pretentious production — which opened Sunday on Broadway, fresh from Brooklyn’s St. Ann’s Warehouse — everything you cherish about this classic has been taken out behind the barn and shot, replaced by an auteur’s bag of tricks and a thesis on gun control and westward expansion. Here, the West was won by a culture of violence and toxic masculinity — what fun!

Some of Fish’s ideas are fun. The chili and cornbread doled out to the audience at intermission is tasty, and the women snapping ears of corn during “Many A New …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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