Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration remains in many ways their most innovative setting the standards and rules of modern musical theatre. In a Western territory just after the turn of the 20th century a high-spirited rivalry between local farmers and cowboys provides a colorful background for Curly a charming cowboy and Laurey a feisty farm girl to play out their love story. Their romantic journey as bumpy as a surrey ride down a country...