A FLOP! & DESERVEDLY SO TOO!

LEONARDO! Strand Theatre London 1993. June 3rd-July 10th. The backing money came from producers of bird **** on an island in the south Pacific. On some evenings it had arunning time of nearly four hours. As with most shows like this, they had so much money to play with and it looked absolutly sensational.

Carrie the musical

Heartbreaking show what died after a few performances on broadway (opened in Stratford) but in the whole entertaining mess of a show was actually a great musical(betty Buckley and Linzi Hately were fantastic as was Charlotte diamboise , sally ann Triplett ,Darlene Love.

One review said "what makes Carrie so heartbreaking is that it hits the heights of great musical theatre and then also scrapes the bottom of the barrel to"

"Carrie is never dull for a single second, it has a non stop energy"

Rumor has it that Carrie will be revived (pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease)

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Hmm well when i watched it in startford it got a huge applause and people were saying they loved it.

Broadway audiences went crazy for it , the show would get a standing ovation after each performance

Im so glad cook went (bloody awful) as Buckley was in her element , she was Margaret White.

Remember Carrie got some great reviews to.

I dont agree at all about the set , it was a bloody mess.

The only way to make Carrie work was to set the show against a realistic small town background, the set was just a bunch of white panels , an awful 3 tiered drive in, and embarrassing prom set.The huge white staircase was jaw dropping especialy as it went of up in to the flys , but it was just so pointless.

The costumes were vulgar and odd(especially for the high school kids), Pink and Red Body stockings anyone??

But the score had some fantatsic moments, Eve Was Weak, Open Your Heart, Dont Waste The Moon, I Remember How those Boys Could Dance, Evening Prayers,In, When Theres No One and The Destruction were all Fantastic (critics praised the moments between Carrie and her mum)

Songs like Out For Blood and Wotta Night were dire

Carries problem can be summed up in 2 words TEERY HANDS.
The man had no idea what he was doing and decided the best way to do carrie was to set around morality tales and Greek tragedy WTF

The original 84 workshop showed that carrie was on the right track until Hands got involved.

The show is salvageable (and would be a cash cow now) they just need a great director this time.

I love carrie the musical and watch my dvd of it every week lol

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well pitchford has now caved and said that if the right company approach them to do it he would allow it as longs as certain changes were made.

The show was an odd one as it was like 2 different shows slotted together ,A fantastic powerful musical about a dysfunctional mother and daughter relationship with some of the most beautiful music i had heard in a long time, and then a camp and thuggish teen show what was in the vein of Grease or Fame(just with a lot of really evil and twisted kids) lol

If they do it again now hopefully they can work out the special effects a little better( there is so much you could do with the prom scene) a few fire crackers and lazers dont scare anyone

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hahaha maybe we have lol

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Far Pavilions
Woman In White
Fields of Ambrosia
Daddy Cool
Napoleon

all spring to mind

the bigest flop ever must have to be behind the iron mask only completing 22 shows including previews and the new production of kissmet a flop none the less but i hope noone says drowsy its a show that i just think was not for the british but the show was taken in by audiences who loved it i saw it twice onece with my mate and once with my cousin and we all loved it it deserved to do better than it did most people under estimated it.

Drowsy Chaperone, Come on amazing show, opened, I want to say June 16th, I may be wrong and closing August 4th, thats not even two whole months, but it is such a good show, just not destined for The West End I guess!

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Lighten up you lot and you poster girl. I only posted what i read in two dailty papers. Unlke a lot of people on here i dont make things up and post them. (....awaiting postergirls grammar corrections yet again!)

I'd love to see these 'papers' as well...

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Oh dear... the person who wrote this: "Two wonderfuly bitter posters here, how funny! They have nothing to do but bitch people down and have nothing constuctive to say" seems to be forgetting that he's also responsible for this: "Ms Piggy Paige is blaming the whole thing on the poor 'Man In Chair' -accusations of scene stealing abound!". I criticized it as did postergirl because it's unfounded & probably untrue if not completely fictitious. In one post you attribute it to "freinds who are in it", in another to "what i read in two dailty papers". Do we have any reason to believe you? I'm sure that if you did have friends in the show they certainly would not approve of what you've being saying about their show on these boards. Does us a favour and stop being so hypocritical.

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Updated On: 7/9/07 at 02:21 PM

Bitching aside, was there anything about Drowsy in the papers at all today? Was it in the tabloids? A quick search of the main broadsheets online doesn't reveal any mention since the reviews (aside from some American tourists seeing the show over the weekend!), and I don't read The Sun et al. I was expecting to see something about closing notices, especially since Susan's move into the Novello has been announced very quickly indeed, but there wasn't anything as far as I could see. I guess it must just be thespy gossip.

I also don't understand why so many people seem to loathe Elaine Paige so much. Sure, she's a bit (perhaps a slight understatement?) of a diva, but I hardly think it's Bob Martin's fault the show flopped (well, aside from him being the writer, but as the show's success on Broadway proves it's not a terrible show). Realistically, she wouldn't get work if she was that much of a nightmare to work with.

Would she?