 Music by Aaron Copland Choreography by Agnes de Mille Scenery by Oliver Smith Costumes by Santo Loquasto Lighting by Thomas Skelton World Premiere: Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, Metropolitan Opera House, 10/16/42 Original Cast: Agnes de Mille, Frederic Franklin, Casimir Kokitch, Milada Mladova, Eleanora Marra, Dorothy Etheridge, Ruth Riekman ABT Premiere: Hessisches Staatstheater, Wiesbaden, Germany, 8/14/50 Costumes by Saul Bolasni Lighting by Jean Rosenthal Cast: Allyn McLerie (Cowgirl), John Kriza (Champion Roper), James Mitchell (Head Wrangler), Charlyne Baker (Ranch Owner's Daughter), Ruth Ann Koesun, Paul Lloyd, Dorothy Scott (Her Eastern Friends from Kansas City) 
Rodeo, subtitled "The Courting at Burnt
Ranch," is a love story of the American Southwest.
The problem it deals with is perennial: how an
American girl, with the odds seemingly all against
her, sets out to get herself a man. The girl in this case
is a cowgirl, a tomboy whose desperate efforts to
become one of the ranch's cowhands create a
problem for the cowboys and make her the
laughingstock of
womankind. |