Carousel
Transcript: About the show Cont. About the show Who? Director: Rouben Mamoulian Composer: Richard Rogers Lyricist: Oscar Hammerstein II What? Basis: Liliom, a 1909 play by Ferenc Molnár. Synopsis: Brash carousel barker Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan, a quiet girl who works in the mill, fall in love, marry, and have a stormy relationship that leads to tragedy and an attempt at mending old wounds from beyond the grave. The main innovation of Carousel was the more dramatic blurring of lyrics and dialouge, as well as the importance of the songs themselves. Making each song somewhat important to the overall story of the show. I believe Carousel would be succesful today mostly due to the fact that there are was a preformance April of this year in London that did well. It also seems to be timeless due to it's themes of love, dreams, "What if"'s, and making ammends. Information Citations Influence & Inspiration Fvydt. ""If I Loved You" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (stage Version)." YouTube. YouTube, 04 Mar. 2013. Web. 22 May 2017. "Mister Snow Reprise - Carousel - Jessie Mueller and Jason Danieley." YouTube. YouTube, 18 Dec. 2016. Web. 22 May 2017. "Carousel: When the Children Are Asleep -- Jason Danieley & Jessie Mueller." YouTube. YouTube, 27 July 2016. Web. 22 May 2017. Fenner, Christopher, and Patricia Mohan. "Superstars Katherine Jenkins and Alfie Boe Lead the Cast of the Brand New West End Production of ENO's Carousel at the London Coliseum." RSS News. N.p., 17 May 2017. Web. 22 May 2017. "File:Carousel Theatrical Film Poster 1956.jpg." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 11 Apr. 2017. Web. 22 May 2017. Brisbane, Nowhere To Run. "Carousel, Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae, 1956." Pinterest. N.p., 02 June 2013. Web. 22 May 2017. Hamasger. "Shirley Jones Carousel." YouTube. YouTube, 04 Feb. 2010. Web. 22 May 2017. "Lilla Rogers' Global Talent Search and My Design Journey! -." Dreaming on a Star - Cute Quirky Illustration & Surface Pattern Design. N.p., 22 July 2013. Web. 22 May 2017. Film, Classic. "Susan Luckey, Shirley Jones, "Carousel" (1956)." Flickr. Yahoo!, 08 July 2016. Web. 22 May 2017. The main influence and inspiration caused by Carousel was the 1956 movie of the same name. Blurred the line of lyrics & dialouge All songs are key moments in the show. Success Today? Where? & When? Setting: A small fishing town in new england, 1873. Prefomances: New York City in 1945-1947, 20 States and Cannada in 1949, The West End (London) in 1950, Renewals in NY in 1954, and 1957, Belgium in 1958, twice in the USA in 1965, and The West End again in 1992. Other renewals happened in 1994, 1995, and 2008. Carousel Video Citations Innovation "Carousel Broadway @ Majestic Theatre - Tickets and Discounts." Playbill. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.playbill.com/production/carousel-majestic-theatre-vault-0000013229>. Shira, Avital. "Carousel (Musical) Plot & Characters." StageAgent. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://stageagent.com/shows/musical/769/carousel>. "Carousel Lyrics - Broadway Musical." Carousel Broadway Musical. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 May 2017. <https://www.allmusicals.com/c/carousel.htm>. Rimalower, Ben. "Game Changers: The Broadway Musicals That Shaped the Art Form." Playbill. PLAYBILL INC., 29 Mar. 2014. Web. 22 May 2017. <http://www.playbill.com/article/game-changers-the-broadway-musicals-that-shaped-the-art-form-com-216661>. By: Mikayla M. Importance Image Citations Enoch (Eric Mattson) arrives unexpectedly (reprise of "(When I Marry) Mister Snow"). Iva Withers is Julie (standing), and Margot Moser is Carrie (bent over) (1947).