Maureen Lipman
1) Oklahoma!
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"The Royal National Theatre's Olivier Award-winning 1998 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! starring Hugh Jackman as Curly. This Rodgers & Hammerstein classic is an exuberant and tuneful musical full of cowboys, farmers, romance and fearless optimism."--Container.
Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.
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Rita, a young working-class woman in Liverpool, desperately wants an education. She enrolls in literature tutorials at a British university to escape from her dreary life as a hairdresser, as well as a confining existence at home with a husband who wants her to choose motherhood over education. Her professor is Frank Bryant, a disillusioned, alcoholic English professor who encourages his students to forsake dead poetry and enjoy life. As Rita is transformed...
3) The pianist
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Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
5) Oklahoma!
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Cowboy Curly McClain tries to win the heart of a girl in a singing and dancing extravaganza.