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Carousel

 

WINNER OF TWO TONY AWARDS INCLUDING:
1. Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical: Lindsay Mendez
2. Best Choreography: Justin Peck
 
FIVE-TIME DRAMA DESK AWARD WINNER FOR:
1. Outstanding Actress in a Musical: Jessie Mueller
2. Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Lindsay Mendez
3. The LaDuca Award for Outstanding Choreography: Justin Peck
4. Outstanding Orchestrations: Jonathan Tunick
5. Outstanding Fight Choreography: Steve Rankin
 
THREE-TIME OUTER CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR: 
1. Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical: Lindsay Mendez
2. Outstanding Choreographer: Justin Peck
3. Outstanding Orchestrations (Broadway or Off-Broadway): Jonathan Tunick
 
CHITA RIVERA AWARD WIN FOR:
Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway Show
 
Wendy Federman and Tony Award winner Lindsay Mendez.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein classic Carousel opened on April 12, 2018 to incredible reviews:

  • “THE REAL SPINNING CAROUSEL IN THIS PRODUCTION IS LOVE.” –The New York Times
  • “THE BEST MUSICAL OF THE SEASON BY FAR.” –NPR
  • “5 STARS. A TIMELESS RIDE, BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL.” –New York Stage Review
  • “THEY DON’T CALL IT THE GOLDEN AGE OF BROADWAY FOR NOTHING. A heavenly ‘Carousel.’ What a gift to have it back on Broadway.” –Hollywood Reporter
  • “‘CAROUSEL’ IS A MIRACULOUS FUSION OF SENTIMENT AND CRAFTSMANSHIP. I’ve never heard a better sung golden age musical.” –The Wall Street Journal
  • “THE MUSICAL THEATER PERFORMANCE OF THE SEASON. My eyes were wet with tears.” –Broadway News 
  • “HOORAY! AN UNMISSABLE ‘CAROUSEL’ WITH GLORIOUS, UNBEATABLE PERFORMANCES.” –
    Wendy Federman and Jessie Mueller.

    Daily Mail

  • “GOD IS IN ‘CAROUSEL. The greatest musical ever written.” –Chicago Tribune
  • “‘CAROUSEL’ IS A MASTERPIECE, a sublime piece of 20th century musical theater. ” –Deadline
  • “THIS IS A ‘CAROUSEL’ WORTH A MIGHTY SPIN.” –NY1
  • “ONE OF THE MOST MOVING EXPERIENCES IN ALL OF MUSICAL THEATRE.” –New York
  • “A CLASSIC SHOW GETS THE CLASSIC PRODUCTION IT DESERVES.” –WRAP

The show features Tony Award winner Jessie Mueller (Waitress) as Julie Jordan, Tony nominee Joshua Henry (Hamilton) as Billy Bigelow and opera star Renee Fleming as Nettie Fowler. Three-time Tony winner Jack O’Brien directs the revival and the production is choreographed by Justin Peck, a one-time Broadway performer (The Phantom of the Opera, Movin’ OutCome Fly Away) who is now resident choreographer of the New York City Ballet. Two company members of NYCB will be featured in Carousel: Amor Ramasar as Jigger and Brittany Pollack as Louise.

“Carousel” stars: Jessie Mueller, Joshua Henry & Renee Fleming.

Mueller earned a Tony Award in 2014 for her star turn in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. She also earned Tony nods for Waitress and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever; other Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. She previously played Carrie Pipperidge in a concert version of Carousel for the New York Philharmonic in 2013. Henry, currently performing as Aaron Burr in the national tour of Hamilton, made his Broadway debut in In the Heights, received Tony Award nominations for his roles in Violet and The Scottsboro Boys and created the role of Noble Sissle in Shuffle Along. Fleming, a four-time Grammy Award winner, has performed on the stages of countless opera houses, including the Metropolitan Opera, Milan’s La Scala and London’s Royal Opera. She made her Broadway debut in 2015 in the comedy Living on Love.

Wendy Federman and Joshua Henry.

The creative team includes Santo Loquasto (scenic design), Ann Roth (costume design), Jules Fisher and Peggy Eisenhauer (lighting design), Jonathan Tunick (orchestrations), Andy Einhorn (musical supervision and direction) and Scott Lehrer (sound design). Carousel, written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, follows the tragic romance of carousel barker Billy Bigelow and mill worker Julie Jordan. The show features a catalog of musical-theater standards including “If I Loved You,” “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over” and “You’ll Never Walk Alone” (just imagine Renee Fleming’s performance of that song!).


Performances at the IMPERIAL THEATRE, 249 West 45th Street, New York City. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.

 

The Iceman Cometh

Eugene O’Neill’s American classic play, The Iceman Cometh, made its Broadway premiere on April 26, 2018 to incredible reviews!
  • “‘The Iceman Cometh’ is a ferocious American classic. It ranks among the theater’s finest works.” The New York Times
  • “As monumental as a glacier. ‘The Iceman Cometh’ moves everything in its path with its inexorable, timeless power. Eugene O’Neill is the ignition key for American theater.” The Washington Post
  • “Denzel Washington is the best living actor.” Deadline 
  • ” This Iceman is at once a star vehicle and an ensemble piece, and the ensemble here is stellar.” Newsweek

Set in the summer of 1912 at Harry Hope’s saloon on New York’s lower west side, this is O’Neill’s classic story of a freespending boisterous salesman who compels his fellow barflies to confront their pipe dreams.

Washington’s Broadway credits include A Raisin in the SunFences, Julius Caesar, and Checkmates. He won the Tony Award for his performance as Troy Maxon in August Wilson’s Fences, a role he recently reprised for the 2016 film adaptation, which he also directed.
 
Wolfe has won five Tony Awards, three as a producer, and two as a director. His Broadway directing credits include Shuffle AlongLucky GuyThe Normal HeartCarolineor ChangeThe Wild Party, and On the Town, among many more.
 
Performances at the BERNARD B. JACOBS THEATRE, 242 West 45th Street, New York City. For more information and to purchase tickets, please click here.