Word: carousel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...short scene from Ferene Molnar's drama about a carousel operator, "Lilliem," Hawkins again had the titel role. Stanley A. Zemon '52 took the part of his accomplice. Wayland W. Boswer '53, William J. Burns '53, and England also had parts...
Miss De Mille is perhaps more generally known for her choreography in "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel," and the parts of "Fall River Legend" which seemed the best were those dealing with the townspeople, who can be alternately gossipy, jubilant, and mournful. Miss De Mille is a spontaneous humorist and her townspeople are quite familiar. It is, oddly enough, in the dances of Nora Kaye that the interest lags and apparently Miss De Mille has nothing much to say, except that the murderess was a lonely, rejected girl. It is a tribute to Nora Kaye's dramatic abilities rather than her recognized...
...Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate New Yorker named Frances Bible, who brought boyish poise and brilliant singing to the role of Octavian...
Murder Rides the Carousel...
...gaudy carousel spun itself down onto the stage floor and suddenly, over the combined voices of 30 singers, a 75-piece orchestra and the world's biggest organ, brilliant explosions banged across the stage sky. For two minutes, while Leonidoff flailed his arms like a man rooting home a winning horse, the sky erupted rockets, pinwheels and aerial bombs...