A response from a "Carrie" producer...- Page 2
A response from a "Carrie" producer...
#25A response from a
Posted: 4/18/12 at 5:43pm
Although the show probably didn't make any money, it did sell out for a few weeks including probably one of the highest priced off-broadway tickets ever [the premiums]. Its rights will apparently be released and it has been recorded with some great performances and some surprising, genuine improvements (e.g. IN) on CD and for the Lincoln Archive. I don't think it's a complete failure.
Amennnnnn.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 4/18/12 at 05:43 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 7/17/07
#26A response from a
Posted: 4/18/12 at 5:54pmI think the material would be more suited for the opera.
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#27A response from a
Posted: 4/18/12 at 6:06pm
"Ok,newintown, maybe you don't have an axe to grind. However based on reading the majority of your posts, you appear to be an angry and unhappy person who lives to deride others."
You just realizing this now?
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#29A response from a
Posted: 4/18/12 at 7:13pm
Newintown had me (well somewhat) in his argument until his crack about soap operas. *grumble*
:P Seriously I think it is a slippery slope when you take that mentality. By definition there are many "sophisticated" audiences (and many I would say aren't) who think even the genre of musical theatre is crap and can never truly be insightful or legit.
I do share your view about this actual letter in question--I'm surprised someone didn't stop her from sending it. I also think they probably did assume Carrie was noptorious enough to make them a healthy profit and wasn't particularly experimental or brave--I also don't think it's a good show except as camp. But that doesn't mean I don't think someone who does like it is an idiot or just blind--yes some of the fans do come off that way with their love, many others have been intelligent and even persuasive of their view.
If anything, that kinda take on the quality of things stops discussion dead, and is kinda boring to spout on a disucssion forum.
#30A response from a
Posted: 4/18/12 at 8:01pm
Some people liked Dance of the Vampires, and unironically, too, if you can imagine such a strange thing.
Not that strange; some of us liked it for what it could have been rather than what it was, but let's not open that whole can of worms.
- A Tanz fan who didn't care for New York re-writes
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