Carousel
Shows · Carousel
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II. The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline.
- Opened
- 1945
- Performances
- 890
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Golden Age
Productions5 on Broadway
| 1945 | Majestic Theatre Original. April 19, 1945 · Rouben Mamoulian | 890 performances |
| 1949 | Majestic Theatre Revival. February 22, 1949 | 32 performances |
| 1954 | City Center Revival. June 2, 1954 · William Hammerstein | 79 performances |
| 1994 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival. March 24, 1994 · Nicholas Hytner | 337 performances |
| 2018 | Imperial Theatre Revival. April 12, 2018 · Jack O'Brien | 249 performances |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 26 albums held
Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals | available |
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53 passages naming Carousel, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
Another hopeful sign is the number of opera companies that have added musical theatre works to their repertoires. Not only does this help break down artificial barriers, it also creates new audiences for such notable examples as the Kern-Hammerstein Show Boat , the Gershwin-Heyward Porgy and Bess , the Rodgers-Hammerst… book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p13
The musicals of the post-Oklahoma! era seemed overly populated with these hoyden Jejune Allyson types (Daisy in Bloomer Girl, Hildy in On the Town, Carrie in Carousel, Lois in Kiss Me, Kate, Cissy in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Lola in Seventeen, and Hilda in Plain and Fancy). book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p57
Claramae Turner played the role of Nettie, and sang “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” in the 1956 film version of Carousel. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p70
Two years later Broadway was awash in period musicals of the Americana variety, including Bloomer Girl (1944) and Carousel (1945), which, like Oklahoma! , were choreographed by Agnes de Mille. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p165
After creating the role of Julie Jordan in the original Broadway production of Carousel in 1945 and appearing as Magnolia the following year in the long-running revival of Show Boat , her Broadway career was for all purposes over. book:complete-book-of-1950s-broadway-musicals-the-dan-dietz#p533
The 1954-55 season brought revivals of major Broadway musicals (which often transferred directly from their Broadway runs, with cast and designs intact): Carousel, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, Finian's Rainbow, and Damn Yankees with the original leads: Gwen Verdon, Ray Walston, Stephen Douglass, and Jean Stapleton. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p318
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