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4 unusual facts about Carousel


Central Cabarrus High School

The walls of the theatre host the names of notable productions, including "Godspell", "Hello, Dolly!", "Carousel", "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown", and a myriad of other popular shows.

Flying horses

Flying Horses Carousel, a merry-go-round on Martha's Vineyard Island, Massachusetts

Carousel, a fairground ride also sometimes known as flying horses

Lili Gentle

Gentle made her film debut in an uncredited role in Carousel (1956).


After the Riot at Newport

Even though the players were playing country music day-in and day-out in Nashville sessions, they had a deep love of jazz and played often at the Carousel Club on Printer's Alley in Nashville.

Ameri-Go-Round

The next year, Marriott's Great America opened in Gurnee, Illinois, and one of the attractions was the Carousel (not to be confused with the Double-Decked Columbia Carousel also located in the park), however, it received a new name, Ameri-Go-Round.

Babushka Lady

She had worked in 1963 as a singer and dancer at the Colony Club, a strip club that competed with Jack Ruby's Carousel Club next door.

Boomers! Parks

Parks is a chain of family entertainment centers which feature indoor activities such as carousels, kiddie swings, restaurants, musical shows, and amusement arcades, and outdoor activities such as miniature golf, kiddie rides, bumper boats, batting cages, go-karts, kiddie roller coasters, laser tag, and in the case of the Dania Beach, Florida location, a wooden roller coaster called the Dania Beach Hurricane.

Carousel Theatre

Carousel also mounted an original production of Pierre Berton's fable The Secret World of Og, adapted under commission by Governor General's Award-winning playwright Kevin Kerr.

Christmas Carousel

Christmas Carousel is a 1960 studio album (see 1960 in music) by Peggy Lee, arranged by Billy May.

Cleveland, Washington

Also on the rodeo grounds is a 100-year-old Spillman carousel that has been completely refurbished thanks to grants and private funds.

Composite print

In the case of some films, such as the world premiere engagement of Carousel, which was made in CinemaScope 55, a six-track soundtrack could not be accommodated on the film, so the sound was played on an interlocking tape machine.

Cyclorama Building

In 1889, a new cyclorama painting Custer's Last Fight, was installed, but by 1890, the fashion for cycloramas had ended, and the new owner of the building, John Gardner (father-in-law of Isabella Stewart Gardner), converted it to a venue for popular entertainment, including a carousel, roller skating, boxing tournaments (including an 1894 fight of John L. Sullivan), horseback riding, bicycling, and so on.

Data and object Carousel

The standard format for a carousel is defined in the Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) toolkit in ISO/IEC 13818-6 and is part of the Digital Audio Video Council (DAVIC) DVB standard for digital video broadcasting.

Dentzel Carousel

Weona Park Carousel, also known as Dentzel Stationary Menagerie Carousel

Dubuque Regional Airport

The terminal also has a baggage carousel, desks for three airlines and rental car services including Avis and Hertz.

Euclid Beach Park

After Euclid Beach Park ceased operation, this carousel was sold and moved to Palace Playland in Old Orchard Beach, Maine, where it operated until 1996.

Flushing Meadows Carousel

On May 7, 2012 NY Carousel Entertainment was awarded the contract to operate both the Flushing Meadows and Forest Park Carousels.

Graham Avenue Line and Tompkins Avenue Line

The route serves Prospect Park, the Boathouse on the Lullwater of the Lake in Prospect Park, the Prospect Park Carousel, the Lefferts Historic House, the Prospect Park Zoo, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Jewish Children's Museum, Brower Park, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, Restoration Plaza, the Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, and McCarren Park.

Green Brigade Marching Band

One of several distinct traditions of the Green Brigade is to perform "You'll Never Walk Alone," from the musical Carousel, at the end of football games.

Grimsby, Ontario

In 1910, the park's new owner, Harry Wylie, modernized the park with carousels, a motion picture theater, and a "Figure 8" roller coaster.

It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown

In the second mall scene, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Snoopy dance to a band quartet music box including an angel, a triplet band, and a spinning duck carousel, all which play Johann Sebastian Bach's "Menuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (BWV Anh. 116.)."

Jack Martin Smith

Later, he moved to 20th Century Fox, where he was one of the art directors on the 1956 film version of Carousel.

Limonaire Frères

In 1893, carousel builder William Herschell traveled to London, England to meet Limonaire employee Eugene de Kleist.

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968

Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 is a live album by Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin.

Magdalen Street

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

Margaret E. Lynn

Under her stage name, Margaret Lynn, she was a dancer and dance captain with the Radio City Rockettes in New York City, and appeared in seven Broadway shows, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, and Mike Todd's Mexican Hayride.

Marie Powers

Later Broadway work for Powers included the 1957 revival of the musical Carousel and the original 1960 production of Becket, where she played the Queen Mother.

Nancy Drew: The Haunted Carousel

The Haunted Carousel is the 8th installment in the Nancy Drew point-and-click adventure game series by Her Interactive.

Ok, You're Right

The video also contain promotional advertisement from Carousel, a 139-second advertisement directed by Berg for Philips, won the Film Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival, the most prestigious award in the advertising industry.

Pacific Park

In 1916 Charles I. D. Looff, who built Coney Island's first carousel, started construction on an adjacent pier known as the Pleasure Pier, also called Newcomb Pier, for use as an amusement park.

Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15

Philadelphia Toboggan Company Carousel Number 15 is a historic carousel formerly located at the Palisades Center, West Nyack in Rockland County, New York.

Riverfront Park Carousel

The Riverfront Park Carousel, also known as the Looff Carousel and the Natatorium Park Carousel is a carousel in Spokane, Washington originally built in 1909 by Charles I. D. Looff.

Road Trips Volume 2 Number 2

Although the Valentine's Day show at the Carousel was not the first rock concert there, it was the first show under the management auspices of the Dead, Quicksilver and Jefferson Airplane, who had leased the venue to compete with the Avalon Ballroom and Bill Graham's Fillmore Auditorium.

Rosina Raisbeck

For the next 10 years, Raisbeck sang wherever and whatever she could: a tremendously successful production of The Sound of Music, in which she sang the Abbess, with June Bronhill as Maria, was followed by Carousel.

Ross Park Carousel

The carousel was purchased about 1920 and is one of six carousels donated to the citizens of Broome County by George F. Johnson (1857–1948), president of Endicott Johnson Corporation.

Sally Ann Freedman

They played at popular ballrooms of the day including the Totem Pole Ballroom in Norumbega Park, Auburndale; Commodore Ballroom in Lowell, Massachusetts; Carousel Ballroom in Manchester, New Hampshire; Rockingham Ballroom in Newmarket, New Hampshire; Canobie Lake Ballroom in Salem, New Hampshire; and Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

St Giles' Fair

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

Suzanna Guzmán

She began her career in Musical Theatre with California regional companies (Sacramento Music Circus, Lyric Dinner Theatre, Grand Dinner Theatre) and appeared in the role of Amazon No. 2 with Yul Brynner on his final national tour and 4000th performance of The King and I, and Carousel directed by Jamie Hammerstein at the Kennedy Center.

The Best Time of Your Life

General Electric, the sponsor of the Carousel of Progress, commissioned a new theme song, one to focus more on the here-and-now than on tomorrow, and the Sherman Brothers penned "The Best Time of Your Life.

The Horn Blows at Midnight

This may have contributed to its poor reception, although the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel, also dealing with the afterlife, opened on Broadway at roughly the same time and became a hit.

The Wacky Molestation Adventure

He then tells them the story of "the before time", which includes the reasons for the existence of Smiley Town, Treasure Cove, "Carousel", "The Provider" (who turns out to be a statue of John Elway), and "The M Word".

Western Illinois University Marching Leathernecks

After each performance, the band forms an inner facing circle to perform "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Carousel.

William LeMassena

He appeared as the Heavenly Friend who serves as a guide to Gordon MacRae on his return trip to Earth in the 1956 film version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel.

ZFX Inc.

Starting with the Uniqlo flagship store in Shanghai they worked with the architectural firm Bohlin Cywinski Jackson in making multiple mannequins flying in a 20 meter atrium and an overhead carousel of rotating mannequins in acrylic pods.


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