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    Release Date: March 15, 1994
    About Carousel (London 1993):

    Based on Ferenc Molnar’s play, Liliom, about a ne’er-do-well fairground barker who is killed in an attempted robbery and returns to Earth ever so briefly to redeem his crimes, Carousel, set in New England, has remained a favorite among the shows Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II wrote, long after it premiered in 1945. But this 1993 revival, directed by Nicholas Hytner and first staged in London, magnified the many striking aspects of the show and gave it a gloss that compared favorably with the lavish film version made in 1956. In every way, this was “a classic production of a classic musical.”


    Track Listing Carousel (London 1993)

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    Disc 1

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    Prologue
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    Mister Snow
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    If I Loved You
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    June Is Bustin' Out All Over
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    Mister Snow (Reprise)
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    When The Children Are Asleep
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    Blow High, Blow Low
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    8
    Soliloquy
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    A Real Nice Clambake
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    Geraniums in the Winder/Stonecutters Cut It on Stone
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    What's the Use of Wond'rin'
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    You'll Never Walk Alone
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    Ballet
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    If I Loved You (Reprise)
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    You'll Never Walk Alone (Reprise)
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    Synopsis Carousel (London 1993)

    A handsome, shiftless amusement park barker, Billy Bigelow. A sweet and gentle homespun mill girl, Julie Jordan. A New England fishing village. A carousel. These are the uncommon ingredients combined in Carousel. Derived from Ferenc Molnár's Liliom, Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel remains one of their most irresistible creations and greatest successes.

    When Julie Jordan falls in love with ne'er-do-well Billy Bigelow, the townspeople's predictions of disaster fail to dissuade her. She marries Billy, who has his own dire warnings from the jealous Mrs. Mullins, owner of the carousel. Soon, because he's now a "married man," Billy is no longer a drawing card at the amusement park. He loses his job, begins berating his bride, goes steadily downhill until . . . he learns he is to become a father. To raise money for the coming child, Billy agrees to help a treacherous pal, Jigger, with a holdup. The robbery leads to a murder and Billy kills himself to avoid capture.

    In the closing scenes of Carousel, among the musical theater's most extraordinary and appealing, Billy Bigelow returns to earth to gain his daughter's happiness . . . restore his wife's faith in her love for him . . . and redeem his own soul.

    Credits Carousel (London 1993)

    Carrie Pipperidge: Katrina Murphy
    Julie Jordan: Joanna Riding
    Mrs. Mullin: Meg Davies
    Billy Bigelow: Michael Hayden
    Policeman: Charles Shirvell
    David Bascombe: Leon Greene
    Nettie Fowler: Meg Johnson
    June Boy: Ross Ferguson
    Enoch Snow: Clive Rowe
    Jigger Craigin: Phil Daniels
    Captain: David Obinyan
    Heavenly Friend: Natalie Wright
    Starkeeper: Joseph O’Conor
    Louise: Bonnie Moore
    Fairground Boy: Stanislav Tchassov
    Enoch Snow Jr.: Luke Hope
    Other Snow Children: Anne Breckell, Clare Sharrad
    Principal: Charles Shirvell
    Dr. Seldon: Joseph O’Conor
    Liza Allen: Clare Sharrad
    Robert Allen: David Christopher
    Penny Bentley: Josefina Gabrielli
    Virginia Bentley: Sadie Ann Morgan
    Abner Chase: Paul Baker
    Susan Frazer: Jenny-Ann Topham
    Cyrus Hamlin: Darren Phillip Redick
    Jim Hamlin: Mike Scott
    Myrtle Hamlin: Barbara King
    Peter Livermore: Ross Ferguson
    Arminy Osgood: Rachel Clarke
    Ben Osgood: David Obinyan
    Henry Osgood: Hal Fowler
    Bessie Patten: Anne Breckell
    David Patten: Joss Urch
    Orrin Presley: Matthew Skilton
    Buddy Peters: Leroy Charlery
    Jenny Peters: Wendy Woodbridge
    Hudson Robbins: Charles Shirvell
    Primrose Robbins: Ruby-Marie Hutchinson
    Hannah Sanborn: Penny-Belle Fowler
    Junior Sanborn: Luke Hope
    Ella Sears: Elizabeth Sastre
    Abbie Sewall: Louise Bracey
    Ruth Sinclair: Jacqui Boatswain
    Charlie Sperry: Andre Stone
    William Sperry: Paul Jenner
    Abner Craig: Kevin Wainwright