"You'll Never Walk Alone"... Those reassuring words once again ring out on the Great White Way with the Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's classic musical Carousel, which features a starry cast headlined by two-time Tony Award nominee Joshua Henry, Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller, and opera sensation Renée Fleming.
Infused with brand new choreography by New York City Ballet's Justin Peck, the dance sequences range from dreamily graceful to strikingly masculine and have given new life to this timeless classic. In addition, the difficult theme of domestic abuse is sensitively addressed by director Jack O'Brien for the modern day audience and we are reminded how progressive Rodgers & Hammerstein actually were to shine a light on the topic in a Broadway musical way back in 1945.
This production boasts a beautifully crafted scenic design by Santo Loquasto that allows the audience to admire and be inspired to use their own imaginations in equal measures. He paints a picture of a bygone era that has a deliberately hazy atmosphere about it, as if being recalled from a distant memory. It blends with Rodgers & Hammerstein's sumptuous score to great effect and the production delivers an inescapable air of nostalgia as a result.
Longtime fans of Carousel will discover enough, in terms of a new interpretation, to warrant a re-visit, whilst first-timers will be rewarded with a lavish revival of one of the all time greats. So, walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart to the Imperial Theatre on Broadway.
(Photos by Julieta Cervantes)
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6 images Set in a New England mill town, Carousel tells the tragic tale of romance between carnival barker Billy Bigelow and factory-worker Julie Jordan.
Joshua Henry is a three-time Tony Award nominee, who earned rave reviews and is currently wowing audiences at the Imperial Theatre eight shows a week as Billy Bigelow in the Broadway revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel. Having started his Broadway career in the ensemble of In the Heights in 2008, over the last ten years, Mr. Henry has steadily established himself as a bona fide leading man and Broadway star.
Jessie Mueller is a Broadway favorite and a Tony Award winner to boot. She recently received her fourth Tony Award nomination (an incredible feat, especially with a résumé of just six Broadway credits). She is currently nominated for her performance in the leading (and iconic) role of Julie Jordan in the Broadway revival of Carousel at the Imperial Theatre - a role as coveted as it is complex in this day and age.
There are moments in musical theatre history that have such a lasting impact that aficionados of the genre keep their memory alive for decades. Sometimes these moments are even immortalised on film. If, like me, you became fascinated with musical theatre a little later in life and only had YouTube clips and cast recordings to feed your curiosity, you may also have made a theatrical bucket list of all the shows and those iconic moments you missed out on. Thank the theatre gods that mainstream revivals have not gone out of fashion on the Great White Way or in London's West End...
It’s only fitting that Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel is enjoying a revival on Broadway. After all, Carousel is the sophomore effort from the legendary team that literally invented the modern Broadway musical with their first collaboration Oklahoma! Although Carousel did not enjoy the initial commercial success of it’s predecessor, it played on Broadway for 890 performances, and in 1999... Read more
