Carousel movie - ACT 2 lyrics
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That evening, resting up after the cookout (A Real Nice Clambake), everyone<br>
Prepares for the annual treasure hunt.<br>
Jigger, pretending to show Carrie self-defense maneuvers, gets her into a<br>
compromising position just as Mister Snow appears. Now the gender scuffling <br>
turns serius, as Snow walks out on Carrie, Billy heads off with Jigger for <br>
their robbery despite Julie's protests, and the women lament their lack of<br>
power (Geraniums In The Winter/Stonecutters Cut It On Stone/What's The Use Of Wond'rin').<br>
Back to the mainland, Billy and Jigger await the arrival of their intended<br>
victim by playing twenty-one. Jigger, dealing, cheats Billy out of virtually<br>
all his share of the coming boodle. But the robbery is foiled, Jigger escapes,<br>
and Billy, seeing his whole life as a failure, kills himself crying, "Julie!"<br>
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The clambakers arrive, Julie only just in time to trade a few words with Billy<br>
Before he dies. "I love you," she tells him, for the first time in her life,<br>
After he has died. Nettie comforts her (You'll Never Walk Alone).<br>
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It's not over yet. A heavenly Friend shows up to take Billy "Up There," where<br>
In a scene suggestive of some advanced Protestant sect's open-air meeting house,<br>
An austere Starkeeper allows Billy to go back and resolve problems he left "Down<br>
Here" - for instance, his daughter, Louise, who is now fifteen and as wild and<br>
resentful as Billy was. The Starkeeper gives Billy a star to take to her as a<br>
present.<br>
A ballet reveals Louise to us: as a tomboy cut-up, then as a young woman tasting<br>
love with a boy she meets in the ruins of her father's carousel (Ballet: Pas de<br>
Deux). She is, in effect, recreating her mother's experience, breaking out of a<br>
Drab life in a dangerous yet wonderful relationship. But the boy wanders off,<br>
Leaving Louise heartbroken and destructively defiant.<br>
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Back on earth with the Heavenly Friend, Billy tries to give Louise the star, she<br>
suspiciously resists, and he slaps her face - once again, in his inarticulate<br>
rage, failing to express his true feelings to those he loves (If I Loved You <br>
reprise).<br>
"Common sense may tell you that the endin' will be sad" - but, at Louise's <br>
high-school graduation, Billy heartens his daughter and tells julie "I loved<br>
you."<br>
As the congregation clusters in socio-religious community, Billy, in a distance,<br>
Climbs a great stairway to heaven (You'll Nevr Walk Alone reprise).<br>
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