Are Lea and Idina really staring in Carrie?

Anyone seen this??

http://glee.community.fox.com/go/thread/view/100198/25002065/Glee_Cast_Members_in_2011_Revival_of_CARRIE_THE_MUSICAL


"Internet buzz is all ablaze! Check comments on TalkinBroadway and BroadwayWorld.com...

Carrie the Musical will return to Broadway in 2011 and GLEE CAST MEMBERS LEA MICHELE AND IDINA MENZEL are in talks to star as Carrie and her crazy mother.

For those who don't know, the show opened (and closed) in 1988 and is consdiered the biggest flop in Broadway history. Many agree the disaster lied in the hands of horrid director Terry Hands and cracked-out choreographer Debbie Allen. Advocates of the show, many PROFESSIONALS IN THE BUSINESS, agree the show could succeed if reworked. The score is one of the strongest written in the 1980s.

A reading was held in New York last year with a cast Broadway names. Producers feel that with bigger stars (i.e. Menzel and Michele), the show may produce a large enough box office advance to finally become the hit it could have been.

STAY TUNED!"

Please say it's not true.

Many agree the disaster lied in the hands of horrid director Terry Hands and cracked-out choreographer Debbie Allen.

"lied in the hands"????

"cracked-out"???

Obviously this was not written by a professional in any business

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I hate both of them with a passion.

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The answer to the question is probably not. Lea's name seems to get attached to a lot of rumors, and she has a hit TV show to film most of the year and concerts related to it. She doesn't have time to recreate a role in a new production right now.
I don't really think Idina's voice is right for Mrs. White. I would say this is all just rumor.

That depends: is Lea Michele going to wear a fatsuit or are people involved in some version of Stephen King's story going to pretend Carrie isn't picked on because she's the fat weirdo with the crazy Christian mother?

Besides, we all know this is the perfect vehicle for Laura Benanti and Patti Lupone to star in.

I'd go see it.

dramamama, the original novel and the Broadway musical specify she's overweight. Carrie is fat, super-religious, shy, annoying, and utterly forgettable. If you misunderstand my point about size, I'll clarify.

A beautiful thin girl is not going to have as much impact as someone who many audience members will already look at and underestimate. The two film adaptations and the unofficial Carrie adaptation that starred a drag queen a few years ago made her rail thin and beautiful. That makes her an instantly sympathetic character which was never King's intentions. This is a girl who goes on to murder her entire high school class because of a prank. If there's even a chance that Carrie could genuinely be accepted, the story falls apart. Why cast a well-known and beautiful girl in a role meant to isolate the character as much from the ideals of teenage beauty?

Spacek sold it because of her talent, taking on a very hunched and apprehensive posture and struggling to get even the most simplistic sentences out without sounding like she was going to die from an anxiety attack. She had the room to do that because the film spent a lot of time building up the drama and filling in the backstory through other characters.

I don't think this musical has the room to allow a bombastic riffing singer like Lea Michele to paint Carrie in subtle shades of unfortunate. You have to look at this girl and know she's had a hard life and I don't buy that from Michele. I don't buy humble or quiet, either. It's not right to judge someone before they play a role, but people would walk in expecting Rachel Berry and would try to connect the dots between Carrie and Rachel that are superficial at best.

It would be a joke to not cast Carrie's mother as Alice Ripley.

Carrie wouldn't be serious with lea and idina. Lea is way too pretty, and she would look beautiful on stage, instead of how Carrie was meant to look. Idina would be okay, I think! I enjoy her skills :)

Kristin & Laura Bell Bundy should do it.

LUV!!!!!! I dont care how it gets to Broadway. Just get it the hell back on the boards!!!! ;o)

Of the thousands of idiotic threads on this site, this might be the most idiotic...

"Carrie wouldn't be serious with lea and idina. Lea is way too pretty, and she would look beautiful on stage, instead of how Carrie was meant to look."

That was my immediate thought.

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LOVE Judy Kuhn! Good one, doodle. She needs to be back on Broadway. Marla Schaffel could work, too. Or if they really wanted to go out there, a primarily African-American cast with Audra as Mrs. White and La Chanze as Miss Gardner. Of course, I'm just speculating and I know it would require careful casting and direction to keep it from becoming a cliched story of racism in America, but I think it's an interesting approach on the material.

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