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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.
Music by Rodgers, Richard; Book by Oscar Hammerstein II; Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; Based on the Play LILIOM by Ferenc Molnar; As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer; Original Dances by Agnes de Mille
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The Full Monty
The Umbrella Arts Center (4/26 - 5/19) | |
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Head Over Heels – High School Edition
The Company Theatre (7/11 - 7/13) | |
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Kinky Boots
The Company Theatre (7/26 - 8/18) | |
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A Wrinkle in Time
Wheelock Family Theatre (4/13 - 5/11) | |
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Brian De Lorenzo - Sammy & Sinatra at the Sands
Crown and Anchor Cabaret (6/7 - 6/7) | |
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THT Rep presents Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Hanover Theatre and Conservatory for the Performing Arts (4/18 - 5/12) | |
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Come From Away
Boston Opera House (5/28 - 6/2) | |
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Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival
Falmouth Academy Simon Center for the Arts (7/30 - 8/16) | |
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