Article: Wholesome, entertaining trip to the `State Fair'

STATE FAIR

By Rodgers & Hammerstein. Book by Tom Briggs and Louis

Mattioli, sets by James Leonard Joy, costumes by Michael

Bottari and Ronald Case, lighting by Natasha Katz,

choreography by Randy Skinner. Directed by James

Hammerstein and Randy Skinner

At: The Wang Center, last night (runs through November 12)

"State Fair" is as corny as Iowa in August, which is just how Rodgers and Hammerstein meant it to be.

"State Fair" started off as a novel, then a film; it became a movie musical in 1946 which was remade in 1962 (celebrated at the

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