15 Carousel is one of my favourite musicals. Definitely my favourite Rodgers & Hammerstein one. "Soliloquy" was one of the hardest songs my singing teacher (yeah yeah) taught me, growing up. But it's a VERY working class, very non-woke musical, so of course the woke had to ruin it, in this era... (archive.is) posted 1 year ago by bamboozler1 1 year ago by bamboozler1 +16 / -1 9 comments share 9 comments share save hide report block hide replies
That suck. I’ll check it out. Their songs are so common I knew some without realizing
You know “You’ll Never Walk Alone” because it’s Liverpool’s song!
I would be almost 100% certain you’ve heard that one. 😁
Also possibly “Old Man River” (Showboat) and “Tit Willow” from the Mikado…
Pirates of Penzance is classic, but I don’t like that one as much, lol…
But yeah, you’ll almost certainly know some of the music, even if not where from! 😁
Some of it is pretty lame, but there’s some gems in there, too.
Carousel is the darkest of all of these. By… Some margin. Hence its “cancelling”, coz yeah, it sure ain’t woke…
By today’s standards, anyway. I don’t think it would have been viewed as particularly “backward” in the 1940s, but today..? Yeah…
I’ve heard those. I have Old Man River by various artists. Also aware of The King and I
I realised after I wrote this that Pirates and the Mikado are both Gilbert & Sullivan… 🤦🏻♂️ Show Boat is Hammerstein, but not Rodgers…
But yeah, Oklahoma!, the King and I as you mention, South Pacific, Allegro, The Sound of Music - there’s a whole bunch of them.
Oddly I got the era and country completely wrong for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones, lol…
They’re good, too, but they’re like half a century older, so they’re less… Relevant, I guess. And a bit less “serious”, I would say, too. 🤷🏻♂️
Being from Oklahoma we sang the main song from that musical at school a lot. I have some recordings of Robeson singing Old Man River. Very good