question: Which Ukrainian-born American ballet dancer is remembered for his long association with a musical based on Lynn Riggs' 1931 play, "Green Grow the Lilacs"?
answer: Vladimir Kostenko
context: Title: Oklahoma!
  Passage: 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 Oklahoma Territory outside the town of Claremore in 1906, it tells the story of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farm girl Laurey Williams.  A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.
  Title: Vladimir Kostenko
  Passage: Vladimir Kostenko (Ukrainian, Володимир Костенко, Russian, Владимир Костенко) (June 11, 1903 – November 7, 1967) was a Ukrainian-born American ballet dancer primarily remembered for his long association with the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "Oklahoma! ".
  Title: The Strawberry Roan (song)
  Passage: "The Strawberry Roan" is a classic American cowboy song, written by California cowboy Curley Fletcher (1892–1954), and first published in 1915, as a poem called "The Outlaw Broncho".  By the early 1930s, the song had become famous; in 1931 it was sung by a cowboy in the Broadway play "Green Grow the Lilacs".  It has become one of the best-known cowboy songs, being found in dozens of collections of American folk music and performed on numerous recordings.  Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
  Title: Drue Leyton
  Passage: Drue Leyton (12 July 1903 - 8 February 1997) was an American actress and member of the French resistance.  She was born Dorothy Elizabeth Blackman in Somers, Wisconsin.  She became an actress after a failed mariage and notably acted in Green Grow the Lilacs on Broadway and several Charlie Chan films.  In 1937 Leyton moved to Paris with her future husband a Franco-American actor who died in Syria in 1941 fighting with the Free French forces.
  Title: Green Grow the Lilacs
  Passage: Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk song of Irish origin that was popular in the United States during the mid-19th century.
  Title: Michele Wiles
  Passage: Michele Wiles is an American ballet dancer.  She was a principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre from 2005 - 2011.  In 2011, she left ABT to form the independent classical ballet company Ballet Next with former New York City Ballet principal dancer Charles Askegard.
citations: Vladimir Kostenko Oklahoma!