The Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk is celebrating the 100th year of the Looff carousel this week. It was August of 1911 when Danish carousel woodcarver Charles Looff delivered a merry-go-round he hand ...

Imagine a hot, humid August afternoon in a simpler time, when weekends were still reserved for families. The old horse-drawn trolleys that once carried Pittsfield, Mass., residents from their homes to ...

People with fond memories of Happy Hollow Park & Zoo may have a flashback Saturday at Hoot & Howl, the Happy Hollow Foundation’s annual grown-up fundraiser at the San Jose park. Original figures from ...

Lee Cervantes still dreams of carousels. The brightly colored horses rising up and down to the sweet pangs of calliope music. The light bulb-lined canopies showcasing their counterclockwise gallop ...

Of the incomparable catalogue of Rodgers and Hammerstein “Golden Age” musicals — from Oklahoma! to State Fair, South Pacific to The Sound of Music — the powerhouse writing team loved Carousel most.

— Jay Berkow, director of the upcoming Western Michigan University musical “Carousel,” is hoping to treat audiences to a unique environment even before the show begins. “It’s about redemption, it’s ...

With only minutes left to see Santa before he leaves Downtown San Luis Obispo to head on his trip around the world, the classic carousel in Mission Plaza will stay put a little while longer. The ...

The new version of “Carousel” is possibly the best sung, best danced revival to hit Broadway in recent memory, and that’s a memory that goes back to the last few decades of the previous century. I ...

January may not be the cruelest month, but it can get pretty bleak out there, so it’s good to have not one but two movies with music in their blood to help us forget the chill outside. The 1956 film ...