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Jamie Muscato Leads London Carousel Concert July 13. Christine Allado and Rebecca Caine are co-starring in the one-night-only event at Royal Festival Hall.
Jamie Muscato (Heathers, Moulin Rouge! The Musical) stars as Billy Bigelow in a one-night-only London concert of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel at Royal Festival Hall July 13.
Co-starring are Christine Allado (Prince of Egypt) as Julie Jordan and Rebecca Caine (Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera) as Nettie Fowler.
This concert follows 2023’s 80th Anniversary Rodgers and Hammerstein concert, which was filmed and later broadcast in U.K. movie theatres and streamed in the U.S.; and precedes an upcoming two-night concert production of Oklahoma! set for Theatre Royal Drury Lane in August.
Emma Butler (Never Have I Ever) is directing, with music direction by Adam Hoskins.
Based on Ferenc Molnár‘s Liliom, the 1945 musical tells the troubled love story of carousel barker Billy Bigelow and millworker Julie Jordan. After Bigelow is killed trying to rob a man, leaving behind a pregnant wife, he’s granted one more chance to return to earth and do right by his widow and now-teenage daughter. The classic score introduced such favorites as “(When I Marry) Mr. Snow,” “If I Loved You,” “June Is Bustin’ Out All Over,” “Soliloquy,” “What’s the Use of Wond’rin’,” “and “You’ll Never Walk Alone.”
