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John Emmet Raitt (/ r eɪ t /; [1] January 29, 1917 [2] – February 20, 2005) [3] was an American actor and singer best known for his performances in musical theatre. His most notable roles were Billy Bigelow in the original Broadway cast of Carousel and Curly in the original Chicago production of Oklahoma! .
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár 's 1909 play Liliom , transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline.
Rodgers (left) and Hammerstein (right) watching auditions at the St. James Theatre on Broadway in 1948. Rodgers and Hammerstein was a theater-writing team of composer Richard Rodgers (1902–1979) and lyricist-dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960), who together created a series of innovative and influential American musicals.
THE LIST: As Elton John’s musical ‘Tammy Faye’ announces it is to close just days after opening, Kevin E G Perry looks back at some of the biggest Broadway productions that failed to break even
Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, live in the small town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.They fall in love, but are fired from their jobs; Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie and incurred the wrath of the jealous carousel owner Mrs. Mullin, and Julie because she had violated the curfew imposed by wealthy ...
Broadway: John Kander: Fred Ebb: Ebb and Norman L. Martin Based on the 1958 play Breath of Spring by Peter Coke and primarily starring cast members who are 70 years of age and older. [8] 101 Dalmatians: 2022 West End: Douglas Hodge: Douglas Hodge Johnny McKnight and Zinnie Harris: The Hundred and One Dalmatians by Dodie Smith [9] 110 in the ...
Elton John’s multimillion-dollar musical Tammy Faye is to close. The announcement comes just days after its opening night. The Broadway show, based on the life of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker ...
The song was introduced by John Raitt [1] as "Billy Bigelow" and Jan Clayton as "Julie" in the original Broadway production. [ 2 ] The song was performed in the 1956 film version Carousel by Gordon MacRae and Shirley Jones .