Rodgers and Hammerstein 's "Carousel" is the musical that takes us for a spin around the dark side of the American dream. And the new Lyric Opera production of this 1945 Broadway classic " a show whose score is widely familiar even if revivals are relatively rare " drives home the notion that while there is much to celebrate in life, there is much that is desperate, tawdry, cruel and unfair. The post The dark rotatio…
SOURCE: Chicago Sun-Times at 01:25PM on April 12, 2015