Word: carousels
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After two in a row like "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel" a theatrical team must face an awful temptation to dump whatever artistic ambition it ever had and roll on in its lucrative rut. Rodgers and Hammerstein have been so phenomenally successful on Broadway during the last few years that almost no one would have blamed them for letting their triumphs go Midas-like to their heads and for turning out a third musical with nothing new to add to the scope of its famous and profitable predecessors...
...effective new devices; and some of Rodgers' music seems remote from anything he has done before. But on top of all this that is new comes a sweet, sticky dose of the conscious, sentimental Americana that was fresh and clever in "Oklahoma!" but too often approached mawkishness in "Carousel...
...take. The humor is in many places stale--the bewildered freshman was done last year in "Barefoot Boy," for example, and the childhood romance and the rocking chairs of the first set were new in "Our Town." Dead characters moon about the stage in a horrid reminder of "Carousel," and Rodger's brasses blast the hero's wedding into a sentimental colossity...
...Addinsell's generally agreeable music, this Alice is no mere theatrical makeshift, but genuine make-believe. Outstanding episodes: The Pool of Tears, the Trial Scene, and Tweedledum & Tweedledee (whose joint recital of The Walrus and the Carpenter is neatly acted out with marionettes). As Alice, Bambi Linn (Oklahoma!, Carousel) has a true childlike charm, a Tenniel look, and a big-eyed, brow-furrowed wonderment...
Broadway currently houses almost a record number of popular old residents- Life with Father, Oklahoma!, The Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, Carousel. Newer favorites...