The run closed August 8, 1954
- Opened
- April 19, 1945
- Closed
- August 8, 1954
- Performances
- 890
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Majestic Theatre
Of the 890 productions we hold that opened in the 1940s and record a performance count, this is the 13th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Carousel 4 more that season
| 1949 | Majestic Theatre Revival | 32 perf. |
| 1954 | City Center Revival · William Hammerstein | 79 perf. |
| 1994 | Vivian Beaumont Theater Revival · Nicholas Hytner | 337 perf. |
| 2018 | Imperial Theatre Revival · Jack O'Brien | 249 perf. |
Who was in it78 named
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
15 of these 78 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 63 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
- Rouben Mamoulian
- Choreographer
- Agnes de Mille
- Producer
- Theatre Guild
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.
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.
Don Walker, orchestrator of Carousel and Fiddler on the Roof, gives us a somewhat basic answer:
Speaker not recorded. The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 12- 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… Broadway Musicals Show By Show Seventh Edition Stanley Green Cary Ginell, p. 13
- 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). Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 57
- 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. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 70
- 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. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 165
- 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. Complete Book of 1950s Broadway Musicals the Dan Dietz, p. 533
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. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Carousel at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.