Carousel

There aren’t many people that have performed a musical on stage that has not heard of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Rodgers did all of the composing and Hammerstein did the writing. These were the two most successful theater writing team and the most influential on how music has been written for the stage since. During their career and partnership, they won 34 Tony Awards, 15 Academy Awards, and 2 Grammys. Included in this Blu-ray collection and their theatrical release date is:

-1955 Oklahoma!
-1945 State Fair
-1956 Carousel
-1956 The King and I
-1958 South Pacific
-1965 The Sound of Music

Carousel

Billy Bigelow (MacRae) is a barker at a carousel in a moving fair. Well, he was at least. He is actually spending his afterlife shining stars in heaven, which is until he is told that his family on earth is in trouble. Heaven’s Starkeeper (Lockhart) will decide if Billy can spend one day on earth to make things ok. When we flashback to the days where Billy is alive, he meets Julie (Jones) , a good girl who is the opposite of Billy. Billy tries to court her but no one in the town thinks that this stranger is a good fit for her. But they do end up together until a mistake Billy makes ends his life.

This film is one of the more complex subjects that Rodgers and Hammerstein have done. It combines some very intense feelings between the idea that Billy is dead and how it happened. Its definitely a very good production but this is one of the few R&H films feels the most like a filmed play. I only say this because the other Rodgers and Hammerstein films are filmed on location or have large, outstretching scenery but this one has very obvious artificial backgrounds. For example, the first scene where Billy meets Julie outside of the carousel, there is an artificial tree with a dark, blurry background of a possible riverbank. Due to the amount of detail that the transfer to Blu-ray brings out of the film negatives, the artificial background stands out.

Cast
Gordon MacRae as Billy Bigelow
Shirley Jones as Julie Jordan
Cameron Mitchell as Jigger Craigin
Barbara Ruick as Carrie Pipperidge
Claramae Turner as Cousin Nettie
Robert Rounseville as Mr. Enoch Snow
Gene Lockhart as Starkeeper / Dr. Selden
Susan Luckey as Louise Bigelow
John Dehner as Mr. Bascombe

Musical Numbers/Track Listing
1. Introduction
2. Main Title: The Carousel Waltz
3. You’re A Queer One, Julie Jordan
4. (When I Marry) Mr. Snow
5. If I Loved You
6. June Is Bustin’ Out All Over
7. June Is Bustin’ Out All Over Ballet
8. Soliloquy
9. Blow High, Blow Low
10. When The Children Are Asleep
11. A Real Nice Clambake
12. Stonecutters Cut It On Stone
13. What’s The Use Of Won. You’ll Never Walk Alone
15. Louise’s Ballet
16. If I Loved You (reprise)
17. You’ll Never Walk Alone (Finale)

Supplements

Commentary by Shirley Jones and Nick Redman: The commentary track on the disc is with Actress Shirley Jones and documentary film maker Nick Redman. It’s a very informative and entertaining commentary to hear.

-Isolated Score is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0: This is the score minus the dialogue for the entire length of the movie.

-Sing Along: The sing along feature is just like on the other discs. You can sing a along with each musical number.

-Music Machine: Again, this is very similar to the sing along modes.

-Liliom: this is Fritz Lang’s film version of the play.

-Turns on the Carousel: is a featurette on the history of the production.

-Vintage Stage Excerpt

-Additional Songs: These are some additional songs recorded by Barbara Ruick and Shirley Jones. As well as Cameron Mitchell and Chorus.

-Fox Movietone News

-Theatrical Trailer

-Still gallery

Disc Details
1 50GB Blu-ray Disc

Edition Ratings
Not Rated

Region Code
Region A

Video Resolution
1080p AVC MPEG-4
Aspect ratio – 2.55:1

Audio Mixes
English DTS-HD Master Audio 4.0
Spanish Dolby Digital Mono
Music Dolby Digital 2.0

Subtitles
English SDH
French
Spanish

1956

G

024543381471

USA

20th Century Fox Bluray Box Set

Movie

Musical/Broadway

2

6.5

2018-02-07 21:44:52

2.55:1

129

United States

1956-02-16

MPEG-2 (H.262)

480p

2.55:1

2

1

Box Set

~$29.77

2026-02-21

2018-02-07 21:44:52