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The show is/was an abomination.

BCTaylor99 said: "It's too bad that the 2015 Lyric Opera Chicago production of Carousel didn't move to NY. It was stunning and Laura Osnes and Steven Pasquale were perfection and had plenty of chemistry. A missed opportunity.

Here's the Chicago Tribune review:http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/reviews/ct-carousel-lyric-opera-chicago-20150412-column.html

I totally agree with you. The chemistry was electric between Steven Pasquale as Billy and Laura Osnes as Julie and even the chemistry between Pasquale and  Charlotte D'amboise as Mrs Mullins was raw! Jenn Gambatese as Carrie was a joy and Tony Roberts as the Starkeeper was perfection. Even Jarrod Emrick as Jigger was a revelation. Remember him as Joe Hardy in the Broadway Victor Garber-Bebe Neuwirth Damn Yankees of twenty years ago?

Why this production didn't make it to New York is beyond me.

 

I remember seeing the the RNT production twenty odd years ago. It had a Billy that couldn't sing and a dreadfully dull ballet in a soporific production with Quakers running around pretending to be starkeepers. . I dozed off several times. The Chicago Lyric Opera company's production starring Stephen Pasquale and Laura Osnes was glorious and probably the most definite one I have seen in fifty years of theatre-going.

I saw Tony Yazbeck for the first time in the Patti Lupone Gypsy playing Tulsa and have loved him ever since and went to see him twice in On The Town. I fell in love with Karen Ziemba when she played Polly in Crazy For You over twenty years ago, then even mores so in Contact at the Lincoln Center. She was also memorable in Never Gonna Dance and Curtains.

Tony and Karen. Two excellent and enough reasons to go and see this show.

IMO, the albatross it has around it's neck is a mediocre and forgettable score, ugly sets and being awash from top to bottom in third rate manipulative insulin-proof sticky sentimentality.

I just saw OTT for the second time and loved it even more than the first. It is one of the most joyful shows I've seen in years with a superb cast. The big orchestra alone is worth the price of admission.

The next night I went to see the last preview of AIP and was completely enchanted. Nevertheless comparing both shows is useless like apples and oranges. Both shows are masterworks of the Broadway musical idiom and occupy totally different spheres.

I completely agree. Of all the shows I sat through last weekend this one was the worst. Just a big  load of sentimental musically absent charmless tripe.

A major disappointment with one very good special effect, a mugging hambone performance by Kelsey Grammer and an earnest one by a defeated Matthew Morrison.

I just saw both An American In Paris and Finding Neverland this last weekend. God forbid that Finding Neverland should get a nomination except for maybe Matthew Morrison who works very hard at turning a pig's ear into a silk purse. I found it a big musically charmless bore with one very clever special effect.