Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Carousel (musical)

Carousel (musical)

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The result was: not scheduled by — Chris Woodrich (talk) 04:50, 30 March 2016 (UTC)

No consensus for scheduling at this date; article may need "further research" 

Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics) (both pictured, Rodgers left). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes at the price of both their jobs. A secondary plot line deals with millworker Carrie Pipperidge and her romance with ambitious fisherman Enoch Snow. The show includes the well-known songs "If I Loved You" and "You'll Never Walk Alone". The authors were initially reluctant to seek the rights to Liliom; Molnár had refused permission for the work to be adapted in the past, and the original ending was considered too depressing for the musical theatre. Rodgers later wrote that Carousel was his favorite of all his musicals. Once the musical opened on Broadway on April 19, 1945, it was an immediate hit with both critics and audiences. Carousel initially ran for 890 performances and duplicated its success in the West End in 1950. In 1999, Time magazine named Carousel the best musical of the 20th century.
 * Most recent similar article(s): no musical yet in 2016
 * Main editors: Wehwalt, JeanColumbia, Ssilvers
 * Promoted: 2011
 * Reasons for nomination: first performance that day
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:26, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'm really saving this one pending further research. I'd appreciate not running it yet.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:27, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I defer to Wehwalt, I have not edited the article in a while, nor have I read it through recently.Flami72 (talk) 15:59, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I'd also defer to Wehwalt. I really think that, before nominating an article for any kind of promotion (rather than afterwards), nominators should check with the primary creator(s) of that article (if it is obvious who they are) to see if there is a reason why they have not nominated it themselves. -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:28, 28 March 2016 (UTC)