Live from Lincoln Center (TV Series)

The New York Philharmonic's Performance of Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel (2013)

J.D. Webster: 1st Heavenly Friend (Brother Joshua), Tenor

Quotes 

• Heavenly Friend : [after Billy hits Louise's hand]  Failure. You struck out blindly again. Is that the only way you know how to treat those you love? Failure.

  Julie Jordan : Where is he?

  [sees Billy and is shaken] 

  Billy Bigelow : I don't want her to see me.

  Heavenly Friend : [waves arm]  Then she doesn't.

  Billy Bigelow : I think she saw me before I said it.

  Louise Bigelow : He's gone! I didn't make it up, Mother. Honest, there was a strange man here and he hit me hard. I heard the sound of it. But it didn't hurt, Mother! It didn't hurt at all. It was almost as if - he kissed my hand! Don't you believe me, Mother?

  Julie Jordan : I believe you.

  Louise Bigelow : Then why are you acting so funny?

  Julie Jordan : It's nothing, darling.

  Louise Bigelow : But is it possible, Mother, for someone to hit you hard like tha - real loud and hard - and not hurt you at all?

  Julie Jordan : It's possible, dear - for someone to hit you - hit you hard and not hurt at all.

  [hugs Louise, Louise leaves. Julie sits down on bench] 

  Billy Bigelow : Julie! Julie!

  [singing] 

  Billy Bigelow : Longing to tell you, but afraid and shy, I let my golden chances pass me by. Now I've lost you;

  [Julie notices Billy's star and reaches for it] 

  Billy Bigelow : soon I will go in the mist of day, and you never will know hiw I loved you, how I loved you.

  [Julie takes the star and leaves] 

  Billy Bigelow : [speaking]  She took the star! She took it! It's as if she knew I was here.

  Heavenly Friend : Julie would always know.

• Billy Bigelow : [of Dr. Seldon]  Say, he looks an awful lot like that fellow on the ladder.

  Heavenly Friend : Yes, a lot of these country doctors and ministers do.

• Heavenly Friend : This way, Billy!

  Billy Bigelow : Hey, what's all this? Who are you?

  The Starkeeper : Nevermind who I am, Bigelow.

  Billy Bigelow : Where am I?

  The Starkeeper : You're in the back yard of heaven. There are the gates over there.

  Billy Bigelow : The Pearly Gates!

  The Starkeeper : Nope. The Pearly Gates are in front. Those are the back gates. They're just Mother-of-Pearly.