Like opera, musicals are typically about big emotions. The characters don’t always have to be larger than life, but they definitely have all the feels. Unlike with straight plays, there really isn’t ...

Stars of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel describe what makes the music so special. Like the musical itself, the Carousel Waltz marks a breakthrough in musical theater, rejecting the conventional ...

The rain was coming down in sheets on 57th Street, but the sun was shining inside Carnegie Hall on Thursday night, where a sublime cast was marking the midpoint in the Richard Rodgers centennial with ...

In Nicholas Hytner’s revisionist revival of “Carousel” in the early 1990s, the traveling carnival became an explosion of music, color and thrilling sexual risk. Within the opening “Carousel Waltz,” we ...

Geoffrey Palmer, a very good, very English actor of stage and films, told me this story about the first time he saw the revival of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel” in London: “We had ...