But at a " Carousel " performance in September, as Michael Hayden played Billy Bigelow as a sneering cock of the walk, quick to spin his back on a woman in disdain, Rick Rubin, an interpreter forced to face the audience, drew in his jaw in an apish grimace and gave the role a sullen, brooding interpretation . ( James Barbour, who later took over Hayden's role, occasionally looked as if he had caught Rubin's act .)
