Shows · Carousel · Imperial Theatre, 2018
The run closed September 16, 2018
- Opened
- April 12, 2018
- Closed
- September 16, 2018
- Performances
- 249
- Previews
- Unknown
- Theatre
- Imperial Theatre
Of the 425 productions we hold that opened in the 2010s and carry a performance count, this is the 91st longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Carousel 4 more that season
| 1945 | Majestic Theatre Original · Rouben Mamoulian | 890 perf. |
| 1949 | Majestic Theatre Revival | 32 perf. |
| 1954 | City Center Revival · William Hammerstein | 79 perf. |
| 1994 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Nicholas Hytner | 337 perf. |
Who was in it27 named
John Douglas Thompson
Nicholas Belton
Colin Bradbury
Laura Feig
David Michael Garry
Garett Hawe
Rosena M Hill Jackson
Amy Justman
Skye Mattox
Matt Meigs
Rebecca Pitcher
Antoine L Smith
Jacob Keith Watson
Derrick Davis
Cory Lingner
12 of these 27 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 15 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name, so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jack O'Brien
- Choreographer
- Justin Peck
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Recordings 26 held for the work
None of these is attributed to this staging. They are filed against Carousel, and nothing says which production any of them documents. Closing that join is the point of this catalogue and it is not closed yet.
Around this production
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their jobs. He participates in a robbery to provide for Julie and their unborn child; after it goes tragically wrong, he is given a chance to make things right. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the songs "If I Loved You", "June Is Bust…
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- Which of the 26 recordings of Carousel document this run, if any.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.
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