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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
Music: Richard RodgersLyrics: Oscar Hammerstein IIBook: Oscar Hammerstein II

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.

Licensing 2 entries

US Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available
UK Concord Theatricals R&H Theatricals available

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In the literature53 passages

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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