I remember a period of my younger days where staging a show seemed easy. I remember seeing lots of plays and musicals in revivals between 1960 and 1991 from Cincinnati Summer Opera to Lincoln Center and a lot of points in between that weren't tortured or beaten out of shape by incompetent nincompoops. I bring this up because this leads to Rodgers and Hammerstein, our TOD. The last wonderful revival of Carousel I saw was the Houston Grand Opera production of summer 1991, directed by a wonderful director, Gerald Gutierrez, whose one big Broadway misstep was the last revival of Once Upon A Mattress. This Carousel made no attempt to PC the show, cut or rearrange the score, and it had an amazing cast. The rumor was Houston wanted to bring it to Broadway but Cameron Mackintosh, who had the option, wanted to bring in "his" version from the National Theater. People raved about the Mackintosh hatchet job, but I watch the youtube video of the Carousel Waltz and think, nope, you missed the boat, and the less said about the last PC sparkling clean revival, the better.