For many years Dartmouth College’s Professor Andrew Garrod produced absolutely marvelous plays in Majuro. Taking part in the plays was, for the students, a game changer. The first group of performances were Shakespeare productions, but later the Professor branched out into popular musicals, such as the musical Oklahoma! This was performed at the International Conference Center in March 2017.
As always, the play was a huge hit and, luckily, teacher Brett Taylor and colleague Andrea Johnston filmed much of the show and Brett put together this video. Describing the play, he wrote: “The musical is played by talented students from all around Majuro, including some of my own. While everyone did such a fantastic job, my shout-out goes to my students: Jonathan Lang, Carlos Melejon, Jobod Silk, and Duke Gaston. Great job on such a great performance. Not only have you maintained keeping up with your work on this play, but you have maintained your work in the classroom as well, and for that I am proud.”
FOOTNOTE: Oklahoma! features music by Richard Rodgers, the words and lyrics are by Oscar Hammerstein and the original dances are by Agnes De Mille.
