BWW Exclusive: A First Look at the Cast of Stratford's CAROUSEL

BroadwayWorld.com has an exclusive first look at the cast and first rehearsal of The Stratford Festival's production of Carousel! See the photos in the gallery below!

About Carousel

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.

About The Stratford Festival

The Stratford Festival is one of the top theatre companies in Canada, producing outstanding works of theatre each year. The 2015 Season includes Hamlet, The Sound of Music, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, The Adventures of Pericles, Carousel, The Diary of Anne Frank, She Stoops to Conquer, The Physicists, Opedipus Rex, The Alchemist, Possible Worlds, The Last Wife.

Tickets for the 2015 season are currently on sale to the general public. For more information, visit them online atStratfordFestival.ca or call 1-800-567-1600.