During the dress rehearsals for "Carousel", which is based on Molnar's
"Liliom", he entered the theater to watch. Richard Rodgers and
Oscar Hammerstein II were terrified that he would be very
disapproving of any changes they had made in the play, and especially
of their new final scene. Instead, he was ecstatic about the show and declared that he liked the new ending best
of all.
