Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel, In Concert
Oscar Hammerstein
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel
by Oscar Hammerstein (Ii), Richard Rodgers, Ferenc Molnar, Benjamin F. Glazer, Agnes de Mille
Highlights
120 mins 19th Century Roles for Children Unit Set/Multiple Settings Period Costumes
Awards & Recognition
Drama Desk Award Olivier Award Tony Award
Winner! 1993 Olivier Award, Best Musical Revival Winner! Five 1994 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical Winner! Three 1994 Drama Desk Awards Nominee: Seven 1994 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical Revival Winner! Two 2018 Tony Awards Nominee: Eleven 2018 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical Winner! Five 2018 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Orchestrations Nominee: Twelve 2018 Drama Desk Awards, including Outstanding Musical Revival
Synopsis
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, a swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries a gentle millworker, Julie Jordan.
Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery.
Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent ‘up there.’ Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day 15 years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew.
She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life.
Billy instills a sense of hope and dignity in both the child and her mother in a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
Press Reviews
"THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE 20TH CENTURY!"
— Time Magazine
"The most emotionally potent of all the great Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals."
— Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune
"Beautiful, bountiful, beguiling... it is the product of taste, imagination and skill."
— New York Daily Mirror
"As close to perfection as musical theater gets...At the end of Carousel, the communal heft of this theatergoing experience will ensure that you won't be walking alone."
— Boston Globe
"Carousel will be 50 next year, but as of this morning, it is the freshest, most innovative musical on Broadway. It is also the most beautiful."
— David Richards, The New York Times
Characters
| Character |
|---|
| PRINCIPALS 3 Women 3 Men |
| FEATURED 2 Women 2 Men |
| ENSEMBLE Large singing-dancing ensemble with Townspeople, Amusement Park Carnies, Youngsters and Seafaring Men |
| CHARACTERS Carrie Pipperidge Julie Jordan Mrs. Mullin Billy Bigelow Juggler 1st Policeman David Bascombe Nettie Fowler Enoch Snow Jigger Craigin Arminy 2nd Policeman Captain 1st Heavenly Friend (Brother Joshua) 2nd Heavenly Friend Starkeeper Louise Carnival Boy Enoch Snow, Jr. Principal Dr. Seldon Townspeople, Amusement Park Carnies, Youngsters, and Seafaring Men |
Videos
Carousel – Through Time and History
Publication
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel is a play written by Oscar Hammerstein (Ii) and published by R&H Theatricals .
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