Olney Theatre Center, a Mid-Atlantic destination for extraordinary theater performance and education, celebrates the 70thAnniversary of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel with a reimagined production of the classic musical, running tonight, April 15 - May 10, 2015 on the Mainstage.
The Helen Hayes Award-nominated team behind last year's How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - director Jason Loewith, choreographerTommy Rapley, and music director Christopher Youstra - reunite for the production, which features an extraordinary team of Broadway performers and Olney Theatre Center veterans, backed up by a 12-piece orchestra. Olney Theatre Center's production opens officially on April 18, 2015: 70 years to the day (minus one) that Carousel opened on Broadway. "It's got unforgettable characters, moments of pure theatrical magic and the lushest and most resonant music Rodgers and Hammerstein ever wrote, centered on a passionate quest for redemption," says Olney Theatre Center Artistic Director Jason Loewith. "I'm trying not to feel too much pressure, but it's kind of the greatest musical of all time." After a bank robbery gone wrong, carousel barker Billy Bigelow is given a second chance to make things right for the love-of-his-life Julie Jordan and the child he never got to meet. Carousel features some of the form's best-loved songs: "You'll Never Walk Alone," "If I Loved You," and the seven-minute powerhouse "Soliloquy". Time Magazine calls this Rodgers and Hammerstein classic tale of love and redemption the "greatest musical of the twentieth century."Videos