Title: Green Grow the Lilacs (play)
Content: appear in it; therefore, the entire comic subplot involving the fifty dollars that Will must obtain in order to be able to marry Ado Annie is an invention of Hammerstein's. "Green Grow the Lilacs" is today largely forgotten in its original form, while "Oklahoma!" remains one of the most acclaimed and popular American musicals ever written. Indian Territory, 1900 Green Grow the Lilacs (play) Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1930 play by Lynn Riggs named for the popular folk song of the same name. It was performed 64 times on Broadway, opening at the Guild Theatre on January 26,

Title: Green Grow the Lilacs (play)
Content: Green Grow the Lilacs (play) Green Grow the Lilacs is a 1930 play by Lynn Riggs named for the popular folk song of the same name. It was performed 64 times on Broadway, opening at the Guild Theatre on January 26, 1931, and closing March 21, 1931. It had had an out-of-town tryout, running January 19–24, 1931, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.. It is the basis of the 1943 musical "Oklahoma!". The play was produced by the Theatre Guild and directed by Herbert J. Biberman. Franchot Tone portrayed cowboy Curly; June Walker was seen as his sweetheart, Laurey.

Title: Green Grow the Lilacs (play)
Content: 1932, and again in Dallas at the Festival of Southwestern Plays, on May 10, 1935. The 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical play "Oklahoma!" was based on the Riggs play. It used a new score rather than the old folk songs in Riggs' work, but the plot is almost identical. The endings are different: unlike the musical, the end of "Green Grow The Lilacs" is left rather undecided as to Curly's trial for accidentally killing farmhand Jeeter (renamed Jud Fry in the musical). In addition, the cowboy Will Parker is only referred to in the Riggs play and does not actually

Title: Oklahoma!
Content: Oklahoma! Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and librettist Oscar Hammerstein II. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, "Green Grow the Lilacs". Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie. The original Broadway production opened on March 31, 1943. It was a box-office smash and

Title: Lynn Riggs
Content: most well-known play, "Green Grow The Lilacs", on Broadway in 1931, where it ran for 64 performances. The musical "Oklahoma!", based on Riggs' play, opened on Broadway on March 31, 1943, and ran until May 29, 1948 for 2,212 performances. Lynn Riggs Rollie Lynn Riggs (August 31, 1899 – June 30, 1954) was an American author, poet, playwright and screenwriter born on a farm near Claremore, Oklahoma. His mother was 1/8 Cherokee, and when he was two years old, his mother secured his Cherokee allotment for him. He was able to draw on his allotment to help support his writing.

Question: Which ground-breaking American musical was based on the book Green Grow The Lilacs?
Answer: Oklahoma