Evening Musical Performance of Carousel
ONCE AGAIN "The Garden Theatre Co." are performing in the Jubilee Gardens, Ely. As with "Godspell" last year, the performance will be free, though we will be holding a collection for the Company to help with expenses. We are a young adult Company, but this year we have performers ranging from 6 to 70 years old.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel is the deepest and most moving of all their acclaimed musicals. Based on a play "Liliom" by Ference Molnar, much of the dialogue is taken from Benjamin F. Glaser's translation of the original play. Through all the happiness and joy of simple community life, it drives passionately and relentlessly towards the death of its hero - Billy Bigelow, and in spite of the affecting sight of Nettie Fowler's refusal to allow Julie Jordan to give in to her despair, it is (as in the original play) during Billy's return to earth, when he replaces the words "If I loved you", with "How I loved you" that the power of the play reaches full force.
With Richard Rodgers' stunning and piercing musical score, Carousel contains some of the best known and loved songs of any musical; from the jubilation of "June is Bustin Out all Over", to the beauty and serenity of "If I loved you". "The Soliloquy" that Billy sings covers every emotion that any father can ever have felt. Finally the anthem of hope over despair, that is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
Saturday 2nd July at 7:45pm. Why not bring along a picnic and a rug or some chairs and make a special evening of it?
Contact Tracey Harding, Tourism and Events Officer at East Cambridgeshire District Council on 01353 616377.