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Carousel is a stage musical by Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) that was adapted from Ferenc Molnar's 1909 play Liliom. The original production opened on Broadway on 19 April 1945 and ran for 890 performances. The show included the hit musical numbers If I Loved You, June Is Bustin' Out All Over, and You'll Never Walk Alone. Carousel was innovative for its time, being one of the first musicals to contain a tragic plot.

The musical has enjoyed award-winning revivals (particularly the 1994 revival at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre) and was adapted as a Cinemascope film in 1956 and as a made-for-television special on videotape in 1967. It is considered by many in the theatre community to be among the finest stage musicals ever written, and Richard Rodgers himself, in his autobiography Musical Stages, said it was his favorite musical. .