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* DomesticAbuse: It's rumored about but never shown that Billy beats Julie. However as Billy states, he only hit her one time, and based on his reaction, he despises himself for it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Billy, stabs himself, unwilling to face jail time for his crimes and dies in Julie's arms. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.

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* DomesticAbuse: It's rumored about but never shown that Billy beats Julie. However as Billy states, he only hit her one time, and based on his reaction, he despises himself for it.
* DrivenToSuicide: Billy, Billy stabs himself, unwilling to face jail time for his crimes crimes, and dies in Julie's arms. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.



* SettingUpdate: Subverted. ''Lilom'' was set in Budapest around the time it was written (1909). ''Carousel'' brings it closer to the writers in place (Maine), but further away in time (1873, then 1888).

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* SettingUpdate: Subverted. ''Lilom'' ''Liliom'' was set in Budapest around the time it was written (1909). ''Carousel'' brings it closer to the writers in place (Maine), but further away in time (1873, then 1888).
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* LaceratingLoveLanguage: Billy Bigelow is a poor barker who marries Julie, but struggles to show his affection in healthy ways. [[AmbiguousSituation While he is rumored to beat her, he states he only hit her once and feels terrible about it]]. When he dies trying to steal enough money to support their coming child, he is sent to purgatory, but given a chance to see his daughter when she's 15. When Louise rejects his help and his gift, not knowing he's her father and that helping her will send him to heaven, he slaps her. However, Louise later tells her mother that Billy's slap felt like a kiss, not a blow. She asks if that's possible, and Julie understands, realizing it was Billy.
-->'''Louise''': He hit me, mother, he hit me hard, but it didn't hurt? It felt like a kiss.
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"You'll Never Walk Alone" is sung much earlier in the show; it ends with a reprise, but it doesn't really fit the definition as it is at the very end, not right before.


* TheElevenOClockNumber: "You'll Never Walk Alone" as Nettie comforts a now widowed Julie, letting her know that as long as she depends on the people around her, and keeps Billy in her heart, then she is never alone in her endeavors.
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trope is renamed Prefers Going Barefoot. Dewicking old name


* DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise. Given she likes playing on the beach, it must be easier for her to run on sand that way.
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##* OpeningBallet: "The Carousel Waltz."

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##* %%* OpeningBallet: "The Carousel Waltz."

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%%* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations

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%%* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations: In this case of the Hungarian Play, and subsequent film adaptation, of ''Liliom''.



* BittersweetEnding: Billy is able to get through to Louise, assuring her that her life will be better if she allows herself to trust others, gaining his place in heaven, leaving his wife and daughter in a better state of mind than before.



%%* DomesticAbuse
%%* DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise.
%%* DrivenToSuicide: Billy. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.

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%%* DomesticAbuse
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* DomesticAbuse: It's rumored about but never shown that Billy beats Julie. However as Billy states, he only hit her one time, and based on his reaction, he despises himself for it.
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DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise.
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Louise. Given she likes playing on the beach, it must be easier for her to run on sand that way.
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DrivenToSuicide: Billy. Billy, stabs himself, unwilling to face jail time for his crimes and dies in Julie's arms. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.knife.
* TheElevenOClockNumber: "You'll Never Walk Alone" as Nettie comforts a now widowed Julie, letting her know that as long as she depends on the people around her, and keeps Billy in her heart, then she is never alone in her endeavors.



%%* KarmaHoudini: Jigger. [[spoiler:Though the film version suggests he eventually went to hell.]]

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%%* * KarmaHoudini: Jigger.Jigger, he is able to escape the police when Billy is about to be arrested for the attempted burglary. [[spoiler:Though the film version suggests he eventually went to hell.]]


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* StarCrossedLovers: Billy and Julie, their marriage is rocky and abusive, and he later kills himself to avoid jail time, but when he is allowed his day on Earth, he takes the time before leaving to let Julie know how he felt about her.
-->'''Billy''': I loved you Julie. Know that I loved you.

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* HollywoodOld: Julie and, to a lesser extent, Carrie, in the final act of the film version.

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* %%* HollywoodOld: Julie and, to a lesser extent, Carrie, in the final act of the film version.

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* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations
* BetaCouple: Carrie Pipperidge and Enoch Snow

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* %%* AllMusicalsAreAdaptations
* %%* BetaCouple: Carrie Pipperidge and Enoch Snow



* DomesticAbuse
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise.
* DrivenToSuicide: Billy. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.

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* %%* DomesticAbuse
* %%* DoesNotLikeShoes: Louise.
* %%* DrivenToSuicide: Billy. The film version amends this to Billy accidentally falling on his own knife.



* IrrelevantActOpener: "A Real Nice Clambake."
* KarmaHoudini: Jigger. [[spoiler:Though the film version suggests he eventually went to hell.]]

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* %%* IrrelevantActOpener: "A Real Nice Clambake."
* %%* KarmaHoudini: Jigger. [[spoiler:Though the film version suggests he eventually went to hell.]]



* NeverGotToSayGoodbye
* OpeningBallet: "The Carousel Waltz."
* PlayingGertrude: Shirley Jones, age 22, was only four years older than her onscreen daughter.

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* %%* NeverGotToSayGoodbye
* ##* OpeningBallet: "The Carousel Waltz."
* PlayingGertrude: Shirley Jones, age 22, was only four years older than her onscreen daughter.
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* TalkAboutTheWeather

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* %%* TalkAboutTheWeather



* YouAreNotAlone: "You'll Never Walk Alone."

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* %%* YouAreNotAlone: "You'll Never Walk Alone."
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A 1945 musical adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar's play ''Film/{{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).

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A 1945 musical adaptation of Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play ''Film/{{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).
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Enoch Snow goes from a decent guy if something of a stuffed shirt, to a prideful rich jerk fifteen year later.

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