Carousel at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma

Located in a coastal village in Maine near the end of the 19th century, the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries the gentle 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 fathers 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.

This show is part of Lyric Theatre's Summer Series at the Civic Center Music Hall.

Authors

• Benjamin F. Glazer
• Ferenc Molnár
• Oscar Hammerstein II
• Richard Rodgers

Tony Awards and Nominations for Carousel