Summary
BEFORE the enormous success of Agnes de Mille's dream ballet sequence in Oklahoma! you would had to have been very persuasive to convince a Broadway or West End producer to incorporate a lengthy ballet scene in a musical.
Not surprisingly two years after that show opened in 1943 Rodgers and Hammerstein asked the same choreographer to fashion a near 20- minute mimed opening for their new show Carousel.See the full content of this document
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Before the Enormous Success [...]
Faced with the problem of staging that scene on the small Tockington Parish Hall stage, with a limited number of musicians to play...
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