Tonight’s the night for Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel on Live From Lincoln Center!

“If you want to see a satisfying production of a great Rodgers & Hammerstein musical, the “Live From Lincoln Center” series delivers. Again.” (New York Daily News)

”Free, on our public broadcasting service, you’re getting some of the greatest music ever written for the theater (or anywhere else, for that matter), sung by some of America’s best voices, led by Kelli O’Hara and Nathan Gunn. What’s the use of wonderin’ whether you should watch when the answer is so clearly “yes”?”(USA Today)

See a preview of tonight’s episode above, and watch more clips about the iconic musical and its characters here.

Live From Lincoln Center presents Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel on PBS, with the New York Philharmonic, and starring Kelli O’Hara, Nathan Gunn, Stephanie Blythe, Shuler Hensley, Jason Danieley, Jessie Mueller, Kate Burton, John Cullum and New York City Ballet dancers Robert Fairchild and Tiler Peck. Check local listings

When Billy Bigelow (Nathan Gunn) meets Julie Jordan (Kelli O’Hara)….


Rodgers & Hammerstein’s iconic musical Carousel opens with this fateful meeting, who immediately feel a deep connection and affection. Get a sneak peek on how this great American musical opens, and see the entire production by the New York Philharmonic on Live From Lincoln Center on PBS this Friday (check local listings)

The New York Philharmonic exquisitely accompanies the cast of Rodger and Hammerstein’s Carousel in a way that no other could.  Says Jessie Mueller (Carrie Pipperidge) of the opening piece “I think The Carousel Waltz is probably one of the most beautiful pieces of music that exists in the musical theater canon” and Stephanie Blythe (Nettie Fowler) adds that “the music is devastatingly beautiful.”

Remember to tune into PBS this Friday, April 26^th for the Live from Lincoln Center broadcast (check local listings).