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Rodgers & Hammerstein's CAROUSEL, Presented by NYFA MT

CAROUSEL
Music by Richard Rodgers
Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Based on Ferenc Molnar's play "Liliom"
As Adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer
Original Dances by Agnes de Mille

Directed & Choreographed by Chad Austin
Music Direction by Joshua Zecher-Ross

Production Stage Manager: Jhanae Bonnick
Associate Choreographer: Ilda Mason
Assistant Director: Beatriz Cavalieri

Produced by Kristy Cates, Mark Olsen, and Jordan Neil Dragutsky

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.