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Carousel (music by Richard Rodgers; book & lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II; produced by the Theatre Guild). All Oklahoma's horses and all Oklahoma's men have put another charmer together again. But Oklahoma's and Carousel's Composer Rodgers, Librettist Hammerstein, Choreographer Agnes de Mille, Director Rouben Mamoulian, Costume Designer Miles White have not repeated themselves. Carousel strays pretty far from Oklahoma!, just as it shies completely away from Broadway. A reworking of Ferenc Molnar's Liliom, it is not a musicomedy but a lovely and appealing "musical play...
...Librettist Hammerstein has not given Carousel the full flavor of Molnar, at least he has given it all the interest of a true play. His script is always simple, sometimes touching, never flashy, only here & there a little cute. And Composer Rodgers has swathed it in one of his warmest and most velvety scores. More than a succession of tunes, the music helps interpret the story; it has operatic climaxes, choral fullness, choreographic lilt. But it is still in tunes that Composer Rodger's real magic lies-whether the tender If I Loved You, the light, murmurous This...
...Carousel," the Theater Guild's latest attempt to copy former success "Oklahoma," specializes in top notch Agnes DeMille dance routines, overflows with passable Richard Rodgers music, and totters on the lyrics of Oscar Hammerstein 2nd and the plot from Ferenc Molnar's "Liliom...
...Hammerstein, who rose to lyrical heights in "Oh, What a Beautiful Morning" has fallen in "Carousel." With no first rate songs whatsoever, he presents numbers titled like "This Was a Real Nice Clambake," "When I Marry Mr. Snow," "Geraniums in the Winder" that turn one's esthetic stomach...
...Remember Mama (adapted by John van Druten from Kathryn Forbes's Mama's Bank Account; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II) is the first producing enterprise of the great music-&-words team of Oklahoma!, the second smash hit within a year for the author of The Voice of the Turtle, and Broadway's pleasantest family album since Life with Father. Not really a play-it has no plot, no structure, no weightier crisis than an operation on a child or the chloroforming of a cat-Mama gets across as theater partly because it never struggles...