Carousel revolves around the ill-fated love affair between Billy Bigelow, a swaggering, carefree carnival barker, and gentle millworker Julie Jordan. Marrying only weeks after they first meet, against everyone’s advice, their relationship hits a rocky road as Billy struggles with financial difficulties and the constraints of settling down. On learning he is to become a father, Billy vows to change his ways and provide for his family, but he falls in with the wrong crowd and dies in the aftermath of a robbery gone horribly wrong.
Sent to purgatory for 15 years, Billy is given one day to return to earth to redeem his soul, where he reaches out to his daughter. But is it too little too late?
Society continues to struggle with the issue of domestic violence and, eighty years on from its 1945 debut, this ground-breaking musical remains as relevant today as ever.
With its rapturously beautiful score and iconic songs including If I Loved You, June is Busting Out All Over and You’ll Never Walk Alone, Carousel is often cited as one of the finest musicals ever to grace a stage.
Join us for this tale of beguiling beauty, explosive passion and unbearable intimacy in the most emotionally potent of all the great Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musicals.
Director & Choreographer Claire Andrews
Musical Director Simon Gargrave
Set Design Alastair Woodgate
Julie Jordan Megan Hardy
Billy Bigelow Matt Greenbank
Carrie Pipperidge Alice Erman
Enoch Snow Elliot Moore
Mrs Mullin Heather Jordan
Nettie Caroline Bartlett
Jigger Craigin Harry Brooks
Mr Bascombe Alex Hunt
Starkeeper Paul St James
Heavenly Friend Chloe Harper-Brookes
Dr Seldon Howard Wright
Policeman Sam Buckingham
Captain William Navesey
Dream Ballet Boy Maddox Beasley
Carnival Boy Zachary Barber
Louise Emily Johnston
Enoch Snow Jnr Theo Hughes
Snow Children Tuesday/Thursday/Sat Eve
Elodie Adams
Jasper Franklin
Sadie Franklin
Sienna Benjamin
Summer Wise
Snow Children Wednesday/Friday/Sat Mat
Cassidy Kyriacou
Emily Barrell
Mabel Andrews
Noah Clarke
Sadie Newman
Ensemble
Adrienne Viall
Alex Hunt
Cera Rose Pickering
Chloe Harper-Brookes
David Barton
Ella Pomerance
Emily Johnston
Fiona Adams
Gillian Johnston
Grace Jackson
Grace Robinson
Helen Mulligan
Holly Macer
Howard Wright
Katrina Morgan-Stokes
Lucy Ramage
Maddox Beasley
Mandy Orchard
Michelle Loader
Paul St James
Sam Buckingham
Savella Kitanos
William Navesey
Zachary Barber