Carousel Trivia, Week One

Carousel is based on a play by which European playwright?

  • Arthur Schnitzler

  • Federico García Lorca

  • Ferenc Molnár

  • Luigi Pirandello

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Ferenc Molnár was already a successful playwright in 1909 when Liliom opened in Budapest.  It flopped. Audiences didn’t understand this gritty and almost nihilistic tale of a carnival barker and a poor servant girl, whose love is ill-fated almost from the start.  In the years following the First World War, the play became popular.  An English translation played on Broadway in 1921.  There were also a number of films made of Liliom. It was adapted into the Broadway stage musical Carousel in 1945 by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (with a film version released in 1956).

Come hear our orchestra perform Carousel Saturday, February 11, 2023!