Word: liliom
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...again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...
Carousel has moved Liliom from 20th-century Budapest to 19th-Century New England, and renamed the swaggering, bad-tempered barker Billy Bigelow. It has also, to its loss, reduced his swagger and taken away his Continental, scamp-like grace. But it tells much the same story and weaves much the same mood. Billy acts tough for fear of seeming tender, beats his wife lest he reveal he loves her. He commits a crime for his unborn child's sake, dies, leans carelessly against the bar of Heaven, returns to Earth for a day to try to do a good...
...Carousel," the Theater Guild's latest attempt to copy former success "Oklahoma," specializes in top notch Agnes DeMille dance routines, overflows with passable Richard Rodgers music, and totters on the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and the plot from Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom...
Tragi-comic fantasy by the au thor of Liliom and The Guardsman. A modern Hungarian Munchausen makes himself the hero of every wild, romantic tale he has ever heard, but his own life is more bizarre than his fancies...
...Budapest station. His father was a Hungarian advertising man. By the end of World War I Lukas was a Hungarian aviator. Then for two years he was a bit player and chorus man. Spotted by the Comedy Theater in Budapest, Lukas made his big-time Budapest debut as Liliom...