Carousel Musical: Infectious, Tuneful Score About Love’s Ebb and Flow; Buzzin Talks to a Closeted Republican Puppet; Flicker Bit – ‘Moliere'Buzzin' Lee Hartgravebyline‚ Aug. 03‚ 2007Carousel is the musical that elevated Singer Gordon MacRae to huge stardom. That song was the 7 minutes long ‘Soliloquy’. In the song, ‘Billy’ the circus barker speculates about his unborn child. First he sings about a son with beaming pride and all the things that they will do together. Then it occurs to him that it might be a girl. And he tells us all about the things that he would buy for her and how he would protect her. It’s a wonderful song – and it shows that Billy has a soft side to him. The story is about star-crossed lovers that are not unlike “West Side Story’ where a love story ends in violence. Billy is not a very bright person. He gets into trouble often, and he is even violent with Julie, who he professes to love, but doesn’t mind slapping her. Billy gets involved with a guy on the wharf that cooks up a scheme to pull off a robbery on a ‘Swell’ that is taking a lot of money to the bank. The robbery goes bad – and Billy either falls on the knife or commits suicide and dies. But, he does have another chance to come back to earth for only one day only to see his now 15-year old daughter. It’s very touching. |