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In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the naive millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant and, desperately intent upon providing a decent life for his family, he is coerced into being an accomplice to a robbery. Caught in the act and facing the certainty of prison, he takes his own life and is sent 'up there.' Billy is allowed to return to earth for one day fifteen years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills in both the child and her mother a sense of hope and dignity is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand why, of all the shows they created, CAROUSEL was Rodgers & Hammerstein's personal favorite.
Music by Rodgers, Richard; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Based on the Play LILIOM by Ferenc Molnar; As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer; Original Dances by Agnes de Mille
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The Way It Is...Now
Venus Cabaret Theater (4/19 - 4/20) | |
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The Thanksgiving Play
Ensemble Theater In Honor of Helen Zell at Steppenwolf (4/25 - 6/2) | |
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Women Beware Women
Blue In The Right Way (4/17 - 5/12) | |
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El Medico Mago
Rhapsody Theater (5/4 - 5/5) | |
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Barefoot in the Park
Saint Sebastian Players (4/19 - 5/12) | |
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Murder in the Cathedral
City Lit Theater (5/3 - 6/16) | |
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Love Song
Remy Bumppo (3/21 - 4/21) | |
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Lies & Liability : A Regency LARP experience
Dekoven Center (4/15 - 4/21) | |
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