A01=Oscar Hammerstein II
A06=Richard Rodgers
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Oscar Hammerstein II
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=AVGM
Category=AVH
Category=AVLM
Category=AVN
Category=AVP
Category=AVQ
COP=United States
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
eq_art-fashion-photography
eq_bestseller
eq_isMigrated=0
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_music
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Language_English
PA=To order
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
SN=Applause Libretto Library
softlaunch
Product details
- ISBN 9781495056581
- Weight: 281g
- Dimensions: 141 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2016
- Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, swaggering, carefree carnival barker Billy Bigelow captivates and marries naive 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 15 years later, and he encounters the daughter he never knew. She is a lonely, friendless teenager, her father's reputation as a thief and bully having haunted her throughout her young life. How Billy instills a sense of hope and dignity in both the child and her mother is a dramatic testimony to the power of love. It's easy to understand why, of all the shows they created, Carousel was Rodgers and Hammerstein's personal favorite.
