| Description | Press and magazine cuttings of reviews of 'Carousel', based on 'Liliom' by Ferenc Molnar and adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer; with photographs and illustrations of members of the casts and cast lists; includes programme extract with cast list and script date [1950]; magazine extract photographs of cast members in scenes from the musical
Performed at The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London, 7 Jun 1950, closing performance (567th) 13 Oct 1951; presented by Prince Littler, as originally produced in the USA by the Theatre Guild; production directed by Rouben Mamoulian, reproduced by Jerome Whyte; choreography by Agnes de Mille; costumes by Miles White; orchestra directed by Frederick Dvonch; orchestrations by Don Walker; original production supervised by Lawrence Langner and Theresa Helburn; music by Richard Rodgers; book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein
On tour: 1953: The New Royal Theatre, Norwich; The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton
America: The New York City Center; then to: The Majestic Theatre, New York, 19 Apr 1945
Casts: Margot Moser, Iva Withers, Marjorie Mars, Stephen Douglass, Sandra Hartley, Eddie Le Roy, Vincent Charles, W. Thorpe Devereux, Marion Ross, Mavis Ray, Eric Mattson, Morgan Davies, Jane Evans, Robert Pagent, Dorothy Laroque, Rosemary Warren, Muriel Cooke, June Powell, Diana Dove, William Thorburn, Bernard Quinn, John Sinclair, Jack Melford, William Sherwood, Bambi Linn, Edward Monson, Wendy Houseman, Laverne Burden, Edmund Hockridge, Mario de Laval, Valetta Iscopi, Sally Gilmour, Barbara Lee Smith, Barbara Burgess, Joan Danson, Diana Dove, Beryl Foley, Dorina Gregory, Sandra Hartley, Enid Heard, June Powell, Rosemary Warren, Robert Burns, Vincent Charles, Robert Duval, Gordon Keyes, Donald McLisky, James Mulcahy, Bernard Quinn, Kenneth Sandford, Dennis Sears, John Sinclair, William Thorburn, Silvia Ashmole, Julie Chadwick, Margot Chandler, Judy Gold, Claudine Goodfellow, Margaret Jackson, Moira Kennet, Jean King, Gillian Moran, Sonya Raven, Margaret Scrimshaw, Oenone Talbot, Andre Cordova, Jack Donnely, Michael Facer, Don Gilles, Robert Stephenson, Mat Winston, Jane Martin, Pauline Howard, Jackie Jefferson, Ruth Abbott, Katherine Feather, John Raitt, Jean Darling, Howard Keel, Christine Johnson, Jean Casto |