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.
Videos
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Beetlejuice Jr
Davis Musical Theatre Company (3/14 - 4/5) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Lumpia Company Fri Dec 26 8pm
The Lumpia Company (12/26 - 12/26) | |
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Little Shop of Horrors
Davis Musical Theatre Company (3/6 - 3/29) | |
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Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc.
Vacuum Process Engineering, Inc. (11/6 - 12/31) | |
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Comedy Oakland at The Elbo Room Sat Dec 13 7pm
Elbo Room Jack London (12/13 - 12/13) | |
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Macbeth
Big Idea Theatre (11/21 - 12/13) | |
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Tord Gustavsen Trio
Music And Minds (3/22 - 3/22) | |
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