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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (Paperback)
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Keynotes
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Carousel (1945), with music by Richard Rodgers and the book and
lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, was their second collaboration
following the surprising success of Oklahoma! (1943). They worked
again with Theresa Helburn and Lawrence Langner of the Theatre
Guild (producers), Rouben Mamoulian (director), and Agnes de Mille
(choreographer). But with Oklahoma! still running to sell-out
houses, they needed to do something quite different. Based on a
play, Liliom (1909), by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar,
Carousel took Broadway musical theater in far darker directions
because of its subject matter-the protagonist, Billy Bigelow, is
wholly an anti-hero-and also given its extensive music that some
claimed came close to opera. The action is shifted from a gritty
working-class suburb of Budapest to the New England coast (Maine),
but the themes remain the same as two social misfits try to survive
harsh economic times. Billy Bigelow is unemployed, prone to
domestic violence, and dies in the course of committing a robbery;
Julie Jordan sticks by him through thick and thin; and the show
seeks some manner of redemption for both of them as Billy is given
a day back on earth to do some good for his wife and their
daughter. Troubling though these matters are nowadays, they fit
squarely in the context of a country moving through the end of
World War II to an uncertain future. Not for nothing had composers
such as Giacomo Puccini and Kurt Weill already tried to persuade
Molnar to release his play. It also led Rodgers and Hammerstein to
new heights: songs such as "If I Loved You," Billy's "Soliloquy,"
and "You'll Never Walk Alone" transformed the American musical. In
this book, we discover how and why they came about, and exactly
what Carousel was trying to achieve.
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