Carnival
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 8, 2006
Closed Apr 9, 2006
Opened Mar 8, 2006
Closed Apr 9, 2006
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
The Paper Mill Playhouse presents Carnival, based on material by Helen Deutsch. A visual and musical extravaganza full of the theater's most colorful characters and sensational songs like "Love Makes the World Go 'Round." As the Grand Imperial Cirque de Paris tours Europe, a lonely orphan named Lili falls under its magical spell. She becomes entangled in a web of romance and illusion as she develops a crush on the dashing magician Marco the Magnificent, and finds solace in the company of some very charming puppets, only to discover that her puppet friends are a conduit for the emotions of their handler, Paul. It's a truly mesmerizing story about love in all its permutations. Directed by Erica Schmidt.
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Theatergoers and critics who have deplored the high-handed treatment of American musicals (and plays!) by Brits of questionable talent should attend the Paper Mill Playhouse production of Carnival for proof that, given half a chance, a director from the good old U.S.A. can do just as thorough a job of ruining one of our shows. In this case, the culprit is Erica Schmidt.
With a lovely, underappreciated score by Bob Merrill and a book by Michael Stewart, based on the Paul Gallico book that also inspired the MGM film Lili (screenplay by Helen Deutsch), Carnival is about an orphaned French waif who longs to find a place in a carnival because she really has nowhere else to go. The story has its[...]