Carousel (2021)

31 July – 25 September

Celebrated for our innovative approach to classic musicals, we encouraged audiences to rediscover Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel. Featuring a score that included ‘If I Loved You’ and ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ – "some of the most beautiful music ever composed" (WhatsOnStage) it was deemed "outstanding…an adventurous, beguiling, resonant reinvention" (The Times). Based on Ferenc Molnar’s Play “Liliom” as adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer | Original Choreography by Agnes de Mille Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel was presented through special arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. On behalf of R&H Theatricals. For more information visit www.concordtheatricals.co.uk.

The cast

Chanelle Jasmine Anthony

Ensemble

Craig Armstrong

Ensemble

William Atkinson

Ensemble

Shay Barclay

Ensemble

Carly Bawden

Julie Jordan

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Sarah Benbelaid

Ensemble

Declan Bennett

Billy Bigelow

Chrissy Brooke

Swing

Jack Butterworth

Swing

Madeline Charlemagne

Ensemble

Brendan Charleson

Mr Bascombe

Jo Eaton-Kent

Mrs Mullin

Freya Field

Ensemble

Sebastian Goffin

Ensemble

Amie Hibbert

Ensemble

Lukas Hunt

Ensemble

Tim Hodges

Ensemble

Tessa Kadler

Ensemble

Emily Langham

Swing

Sam Mackay

Jigger Craigin

Ediz Mahmut

Enoch Snow Jnr

Lindsay McAllister

Ensemble

Matthew McKenna

Ensemble

Jack Mitchell

Ensemble

Christina Modestou

Carrie Pipperidge

John Pfumojena

Enoch Snow

Charlotte Riby

Ensemble

Joanna Riding

Nettie Fowler

Lisa Ritchie

Ensemble

Christopher Tendai

Swing

Natasha May-Thomas

Louise Bigelow

Daisy West

Ensemble

Creative team

David Allen

Associate Set Designer

Andy Barnwell

Orchestral Manager

Joanna Bowman

Associate Director

Lucy Casson

Casting Director

Tom Deering

Musical Supervisor & Orchestrator

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Mark Dickman

Associate Musical Director

Molly Einchcomb

Costume Designer

Annie May Fletcher

Sound Associate

Barbara Houseman

Season Associate Director/Voice & Text Director

Nick Lidster for Autograph

Sound Designer

Ingrid Mackinnon

Intimacy Support

Simisola Lucia Majekodunmi

Lighting Associate

Aideen Malone

Lighting Designer

Matthew Malone

Assistant Musical Director

Drew McOnie

Choreographer

Ebony Molina

Associate Choreographer

Verity Naughton

Children's Casting Director

James Orange CDG

Casting Director

Susanna Peretz

Wigs, Hair & Make-Up Designer

Tom Scutt

Set Designer & Co-Costume Designer

Timothy Sheader

Director

Jacob Sparrow

Casting Director

Kate Waters

Fight Director

Nic Wass

Creative Associate

Reviews

Time Out

PHENOMENAL…a brave and powerful production. ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, sung beautifully by Joanna Riding, remains a thing of pure majesty.

The Times

OUTSTANDING…an adventurous, beguiling, resonant reinvention.

WhatsOnStage

Some of the most beautiful music ever composed, Tom Deering’s re-orchestrations retain its SOARING MELODIC BEAUTY

Culture Whisper

Timothy Sheader’s Carousel glitters with STAND-OUT PERFORMANCES.

BroadwayWorld.com

Declan Bennett (Billy Bigelow) and Carly Bawden (Julie Jordan) are SENSATIONAL.

LondonTheatre.co.uk

Emotionally complex, current, and expertly conceived. A SOUL-STIRRING EXPERIENCE.

The i

A tough, radical reinterpretation, the staging is crammed with texture. Drew McOnie’s INTRICATELY EXPRESSIVE CHOREOGRAPHY wordlessly sketches generations of struggle.

The Stage

It’s wonderful to see how a classic show can be reckoned with and reframed. Spectacular but unsweetened, for the harsh here-and-now.

The Daily Telegraph

Carly Bawden is a coolly self-possessed Julie, Christina Modestou a comic force as Carrie, John Pfumojena brings zeal to Enoch’s grand plans and Natasha May-Thomas makes a dynamic stage debut as Louise.

Musical Theatre Review

Tom Deering’s new orchestral arrangements are FRESH, IMAGINATIVE and ACCESSIBLE. In a strong cast, Declan Bennett’s Billy Bigelow is nuanced and complex, and Joanna Riding delights as the warm-hearted, common sensible Nettie.

Theatre-News.com

The entire company should be applauded for bringing this new, EXCITING and THOUGHT PROVOKING production to the fore. A Carousel that turns the tables on what you think the show could be. Take a ride. You'll be challenged but never disappointed.

Financial Times

Timothy Sheader’s staging wriggles free of sentimentality to find the darkness in the story, whilst still relishing the comedy and honouring the lush, haunting beauty of the score.