Carousel-2025
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel
ACT ONE
ACT TWO
Photos Courtesy of Simon Dorado
SYNOPSIS
Based on Ferenc Molnar’s Play Liliom
As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer
Original Choreography by Agnes de Mille
Directed by Kevin Russell
Choreography by Kristi Hinson
In a Maine coastal village toward the end of the 19th century, a swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, captivates and marries a 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 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. Billy instills a sense of hope and dignity in both the child and her mother in a dramatic testimony to the power of love.
CAROUSEL is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of The Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization. www.concordtheatricals.com
CAST
Carrie Pipperidge - Kortney Adcock
Julie Jordan - Ashlyn Smith
Mrs. Mullins - Angela Dickson
Billy Bigelow - Chris Saltalamacchio
Enoch Snow - Hunter Williams
David Bascombe - Kevin Russell
Nettie Fowler - Carol Anne Osborne
Jigger Craigin - Rob Nixon
1st Policeman - Nick Stewart
1st Heavenly Friend - Reid Hinson
Starkeeper- John Turner
Dr. Sheldon - John Turner
Louise - Kinley Wilkes
Enoch Snow Jr. - Isaiah Smelser
Enoch's Daughter - Aubrey Mauldin
Captain - Tyler Sallas
Bessie - Terrie Garrett
Jessie - Vanita Turner
Boatswain - Connor Deal
Arminy - Emma Jeffries
Penny - Hannah Harris
Jennie - LynnZee Richards
Virginia - Rebecca Boggs
Jonathan - Chase Sims
Carnival Boy - Trey Hodge
Village Child - Halo Jones