History Theatre / Carousel

* TheSoprano: Julie Jordan and Carrie Pipperidge.

* JerkassFacade: Billy Bigelow.

A remake of the movie has been planned, with Creator/HughJackman as the lead role of Billy.

* RevisedEnding: ''Liliom'' originally ended on a downer with [[spoiler:Liliom failing to help his daughter and going to hell once he strikes her]]. This was revised in ''Carousel'' so that Billy [[spoiler:sticks around afterwards and succeeds in his mission]]. Molnar actually liked the newer ending.

->''"Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain,''
->''Though your dreams be tossed and blown.''
->''Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart,''
->''And you'll never walk alone!"''

* DomesticAbuser

* YouAreNotAlone: [[TearJerker "You'll Never Walk Alone."]]

A 1945 musical adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar's play ''Liliom'', ''Carousel'' was Creator/RodgersAndHammerstein's follow-up to their first smash, ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''. A film version was released in 1956, a year after the film version of ''Oklahoma!'' (and reuniting the latter's two leads).

->''Walk on through the wind, walk on through the rain,''

->''And you'll never walk alone!''

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* TheSoprano: Julie Jordan

A 1945 musical adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar's play ''Liliom'', ''Carousel'' was RodgersAndHammerstein's follow-up to their first smash, ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''. A film version was released in 1956, a year after the film version of ''Oklahoma!'' (and reuniting the latter's two leads).

* PosthumousNarration: Billy tells the story of his life with Julie while in heaven.

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A 1945 musical adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar's play ''Liliom'', ''Carousel'' was RodgersAndHammerstein's follow-up to their first smash, ''{{Oklahoma}}''. A film version was released in 1956, a year after the film version of ''Oklahoma!'' (and reuniting the latter's two leads).

* AlliterativeName: Billy Biggelow and Julie Jordan.

* DarkReprise: "If I loved you." First sung by the leads as they ponder a life together; Billy sings it as a ghost as he [[GriefSong mourns his wasting his opportunity to spit out his feelings for Julie.]]

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise, Billy Bigelow's daughter

* IrrelevantActOpener: "A real nice clambake."
* JerkassFacade: Billy Bigelow

* MoodWhiplash: The bench scene is a beautiful love song where the couple falls for each other. In the next scene, they're already having some serious marital problems.
* MusicalisInterruptus: Julie tries singing "You'll never walk alone," but breaks down crying after a few bars. Nettie and the other townfolks take over.

* OpeningBallet: The Carousel Waltz.

* RevisedEnding: ''Liliom'' originally ended on a downer with [[spoiler:Liliom failing to help his daughter and going to hell once he strikes her.]] This was revised in Carousel so that Billy [[spoiler:sticks around afterwards and succeeds in his mission.]] Molnar actually liked the newer ending.

* YouAreNotAlone: [[TearJerker You'll never walk alone.]]

* TheOtherMarty: FrankSinatra was cast as Billy Bigelow in the film version, but left production a few weeks in rather than shoot each scene twice (once on 35mm, another on 55mm). A few weeks after Gordon Macrae came on board, [[ShaggyDogStory they discovered a conversion process between the formats.]]
* PlayingGertrude: Shirley Jones, age 22, was only eight years older than her onscreen daughter.

* PlayingGertrude: Shirley Jones, age 22, was only eight years older than her onscreen daughter Bambi Linn (who played the dream version of the former a year earlier in Oklahoma).

A remake of the movie has been planned, with HughJackman as the lead role of Billy.

A 1945 musical adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's play ''Liliom'', ''Carousel'' was RodgersAndHammerstein's follow-up to their first smash, ''{{Oklahoma}}''. A film version was released in 1956, a year after the film version of ''Oklahoma!'' (and reuniting the latter's two leads).

* HollywoodOld: Julie and, to a lesser extent, Carrie [[who are supposedly 15 years older]] in the final act of the movie.

* HowWeGotHere: The film version opens with Billy at the pearly gates; the stage version starts chronologically.

** The 1934 film version of ''Liliom'' also ended with [[spoiler:a happy ending, with Liliom ending up in heaven, because of Julie's love and faithfulness for him. Basically a version of the infamous quote, "It's possible for someone to hit you, and not hurt at all," got Liliom into heaven! That, and Julie keeping the star.]]

A 1945 musical adaptation of Ferenc Molnar's play ''Liliom'', ''Carousel'' was RodgersAndHammerstein's follow-up to their first smash, ''{{Oklahoma}}!''. A film version was released in 1956, a year after the film version of ''Oklahoma!'' (and reuniting the latter's two leads).

* FairForItsDay: The topic of domestic abuse was not handled very well in this play, but the fact that it even admitted this happened was a small breakthrough.