Carousel, 1945

Other stagings of Carousel 4 more

Who was in it78 named

John Raitt1917–2005

Jan Clayton1917–1983

Jean Darling1922–2015

Murvyn Vye1913–1976

C

Christine Johnson

E

Eric Mattson

B

Bambi Linnb. 1926

P

Peter Birch

P

Pearl Lang1921–2009

J

Jean Casto

R

Russell Collins

E

Effie Afton

M

Mimi Cabanne

John Conte1915–2006

A

Ann Crowley

David Ahdar
Connie Baxter
Robert Byrn
Anne Calvert
Martha Carver
Diane Chadwick
Neil Chirico
Josephine Collins
Kathleen Comegys
Margaret Cuddy
Margaretta de Valera
Andrea Downing
Tom Duffey
Larry Evers
Lew Foldes
Franklyn Fox
Louis Freed
Lester Freedman
Richard H Gordon
John Harrold
Lynn Joelson
Sonia Joroff
Joan Keenan
Lee Lauterbur
Charles Leighton
Kenneth Leroy
Ralph Linn
William Lundi
Annabelle Lyon
Frank Marasco
Tom Mcduffie
Marilyn Merkt
Beatrice Miller
Ruth Miller
Ginna Moise
Ernest Richman
Blake Ritter
Elena Salamatova
Jimsey Somers
Mimi Strongin
Marjory Svetlik
Suzanne Tafel
Gordon Taylor
Ralph Tucker
Jay Velie
Polly Welch
Fern Whitney
Glory Wills
Iva Withers
Robert Austin
Nathan Baker
Walter Hull
Harold Keel
Thomas Lomonaco
Henry Michel
Beth Nichols
David Raher
Pat Rogers
Betta Striegler
Jacqueline Stuart
Gisella Svetlik
Calvin Thomas
George V Vincent

Creative team

Director

Rouben Mamoulian

Choreographer

Agnes de Mille

Producer

Theatre Guild

Recordings 1 released while this run was on

1945

Carousel: Selections From the Theatre Guild Musical Play Decca Records DA29171; Decca Records DA29172; Decca Records DA29…, released July 19, 1945

United States

25 more exist for other runs of this show: see Carousel for all of them.

Around this production

Rodgers considered "Soliloquy" the best piece of music he ever wrote. The nearly eight-minute number was revolutionary: a character thinking through becoming a father, in real time, through song.