New To Me Musical Monday!
There are a lot of the Golden Age musicals that I'm not terribly familiar with so I wanted to try something different for this week's post. Rather than giving you my favorites for a musical that I know very well - let's talk about one that I didn't really know before this week and one with a story that is...troublesome. Carousel . Another R&H classic and one that is actually on it's way to another revival with some of my favorites (Jessie Mueller and Joshua Henry. So dreamy.). I don't know if I've come any closer to having an answer for that after watching the 1956 film with Shirley Jones and Gordon MacRae, but I do have a greater appreciation for the mastery of R&H. A quick synopsis: Julie Jordan and her friend Carrie Pipperidge go to the carousel in their small Maine town and buy tickets for a ride. Julie sees the local carnival barker - Billy Bigelow - and totes likes his barrel-chested, jaunty hat wearing ways. They flirt, he rides the...