Oklahoma!
Skylight Music Theater 2019
Stage Director: Jill Anna Ponasik
Music Director: David Bonofiglio
Choreographer: James Zager
Scenic and Lighting Design: Peter Dean Beck
Costume Design: Kären Simonson Kopishke
“A sensational show is sweeping down the plain at the Skylight Music Theatre in Milwaukee. It’s a swiftly rolling wagon loaded with superb singing and acting, exciting drama and plenty of laughs. “
Matthew Perta, Showbiz Chicago
“At the Skylight, director Jill Anna Ponasik hasn’t gone country like Broadway. But she has stripped down the music and lyrics, sandpapered the vistas into rustic overtones and delved into the psychological pulls of the story. Mainly she lets “Oklahoma!” and its exclamation point rise or fall on directness. If the words are memorable, the tunes haunting and the lyrics revealing, just play them out without artifice or old school posturing. The patrons will be pulled right in, she thought—correctly.”
Dominique Noth, Urban Milwaukee