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Robby French plays Billy Bigelow in the Civic’s Carousel.
When the creative duo of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II had to follow the immense success of their first musical collaboration, Oklahoma!, they went with the obvious choice: a turn-of-the-century Hungarian play about an inarticulate, impetuous carnival barker who mistreats his girlfriend, commits suicide during a botched robbery and later makes a posthumous attempt at redemption with mixed results.
Their source play, Ferenc Molnár’s Liliom, wasn’t as niche as it might sound. It had been translated into
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