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The story, as ever, relates who will get to take Laurey to the box social, but it exists within a more threatening context than we are used to from so traditionally upbeat a musical theater mainstay.

At the show’s close, the actors presented Tait with a cookbook that included the show’s signature cornbread and a recipe for “The Tequila and the Lime Should Be Friends” margarita, which she plans to serve at a “box social” dinner party.

That production generated tremendous buzz in theater circles, and a long period of competitive scrapping over its future that might be compared to the tense auction of picnic hampers at the box social in the show’s second act.

“Oklahoma!,” which Rodgers and Hammerstein adapted from Lynn Riggs’s 1931 play, “Green Grow the Lilacs,” has a simple plot: at the turn of the century, in the Oklahoma Territory, a cowboy named Curly wants to take Laurey, a farm girl, to a box social, as does Jud Fry, her family’s menacing hired hand.

The community’s biggest excitement is a box social and auction to raise money for a school.