Speaking For A Change

Carousel and Cinderella - Rodgers And Hammerstein
2025-01-06 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Chicago) | Private Venue
Carousel and Cinderella – Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classics – are very different, yet each is influentially popular and often revived today.
In 1945, “Carousel” was the second great hit for the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. The nostalgic, sentimental, and emotional story has brought audiences to tears since it premiered. It has brought audiences to tears ever since it premiered. The song” “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is one of the most emotionally evocative songs ever written in any contact. We will look at the development of this great Broadway musical and see how Rodgers and Hammerstein’s artistry lifted a somewhat mawkish story to great heights of Broadway magic.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s lovely musical “Cinderella” was the first major original musical written directly for television. Despite the extremely limited production facilities and technology available back in 1957, the show was brilliant! Starring Julie Andrews, producing many hit songs, and inspiring several televised revivals, “Cinderella” is often overlooked as one of the great Rodgers and Hammerstein classics.
The show is such an unforgettable work of art that it was even produced as a full Broadway musical, to great critical acclaim, in 2013. Remarkably, that is almost half a century after “Cinderella” first appeared on television!
Join us for this fun and fast-moving multimedia presentation!
