Named BEST MUSICAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Time Magazine in 1999. Music by Richard Rodgers Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II Based on Ferenc Molnar's play Liliom As adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer William Shomos, director Alisa Belflower, musical director Tyler White, conductor Scott Parker, lighting Janice Stauffer, costumes UNL's School of Music and Johnny Carson School of Theatre & Film in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine & Performing Arts will be joining forces with the Lied Center to produce CAROUSEL. UNL's undergraduate and graduate students will perform along with a featured, guest actor. Another guest artist from Broadway will visit to direct this exciting new production. With it's elegant music and passionate characters, CAROUSEL tells a story of the swaggering, carefree carnival barker, Billy Bigelow, who captivates and marries the naïve millworker, Julie Jordan. Billy loses his job just as he learns that Julie is pregnant. Desperate to provide for his family, Billy is coerced into becoming an accomplice in a crime. Billy's downfall affects the lives of everyone in the village. How Billy ultimately instills his child and her mother with a sense of hope and dignity is dramatic testimony to the power of love. It is easy to understand why Richard Rodgers always named Carousel as his personal favorite of all the celebrated musicals he had composed. Tickets: Adults $32 & 28, students and youth $16 and 14. Available thru the Lied Center box office, 402/472-4747 or 1-800/432-3231.