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Liliom
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thumb|Joseph Schildkraut in the title role in the [[Theatre Guild production of Liliom (1921)]]

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Author
Ferenc Molnár
First published
1909
Editions
39
Subjects
Theater programs, Specimens, Habimah, Drama, Purgatory, Hungarian drama, Finno-ugric languages

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Instance of
literary work
Genre
drama
Country of origin
Hungary
Image
Lilkomelső.jpg
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inception
1909-00-00
Commons category
Liliom (1921 play)
language of work or name
Hungarian
date of first performance
1909-12-07
publication date
1909-01-01
copyright status
public domain
form of creative work
play
different from
Liliom
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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • Plot
  • Reception
  • Revivals
  • Stage and radio adaptations
  • ''The Campbell Playhouse'' (1939)
  • ''Carousel'' (musical, 1945)
  • Hamburg Ballet (2011)
  • Andrei Șerban's ''Carousel'' (2015)
  • Film adaptations
  • Major characters in ''Liliom''
  • Trivia
  • References
  • External links

thumb|Joseph Schildkraut in the title role in the [[Theatre Guild production of Liliom (1921)]]

Liliom is a 1909 play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnár. It was well known in its own right during the early to mid-20th century, but is best known today as the basis for the Rodgers and Hammerstein 1945 musical Carousel.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Liliom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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