Posted: 10/21/09 at 8:00pm
Broadway Producers Putting Together Fall Reading of CARRIE: THE MUSICAL — Page 6
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#126
#127
Posted: 10/21/09 at 8:12pm
"Why it's a good idea for Carrie to sing though,"
That could be said about most characters from musicals.
That could be said about most characters from musicals.
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#128
Posted: 10/21/09 at 10:41pm
"Carrie: The Musical" sounds like a parody of Broadway shows that would be on the Simpsons or Family Guy. I could always be wrong and the show could be a huge success if it were ever revived... But I think that the average tourist is going to laugh at the very title and pass it by, regardless of how solid a new production of it could be.
But again, that's just my opinion. A revival of Carrie might be the next Phantom and run for a bazillion years. Nobody knows.
But again, that's just my opinion. A revival of Carrie might be the next Phantom and run for a bazillion years. Nobody knows.
#129
Posted: 10/21/09 at 11:34pm
I laughed when I first heard it was going to be a logo. Then I saw the posters spring up all over town and it was so evocative and fantastic and then I went by the theater during load in and then I HAD to see the show and went to the first preview.
So you never know what will make people reconsider their first reactions to the idea.
So you never know what will make people reconsider their first reactions to the idea.
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#130
Posted: 10/22/09 at 2:51am
Rumor on ATC is that Marin Mazzie will be playing Margaret in the workshop.
#131
Posted: 10/22/09 at 10:21am
Why it's a good idea for Carrie to sing though, I don't quite comprehend.
Carrie is a larger-than-life iconic literary character who runs the gamut of psychological and emotional turmoil throughout a classic novel. Personally, I thought musicalizing her was not only a brilliant idea, but logical. Carrie and Margaret are practically operatic in scale.
I've also felt a musical of Misery would be fantastic, but only if it adapts the novel, rather than the screenplay, to inject scenes from Paul's story throughout the show. We can see them come to life as he's writing them or Annie's reading them. It would add more opportunity for musical variety in the score while simultaneously balancing out the relentless inhumane actions of Annie. I wish I were independently wealthy. And a composer. And lyricist.
Carrie is a larger-than-life iconic literary character who runs the gamut of psychological and emotional turmoil throughout a classic novel. Personally, I thought musicalizing her was not only a brilliant idea, but logical. Carrie and Margaret are practically operatic in scale.
I've also felt a musical of Misery would be fantastic, but only if it adapts the novel, rather than the screenplay, to inject scenes from Paul's story throughout the show. We can see them come to life as he's writing them or Annie's reading them. It would add more opportunity for musical variety in the score while simultaneously balancing out the relentless inhumane actions of Annie. I wish I were independently wealthy. And a composer. And lyricist.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#132
Posted: 10/22/09 at 10:32am
The stage play of Misery is very very good
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#133
Posted: 10/22/09 at 10:41am
I directed Misery on stage. The play is pretty good, but the opening monologue needs to be cut entirely and the closing should be trimmed. But I loved working on that show and had a fantastic pair of actors.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#134
Posted: 10/22/09 at 12:55pm
I think Carrie would work better as a ballet. She's such a subtle quiet character for much of the piece and I feel like her muted quality would be better suited to dance... Sorta like the Edward Scissorhands ballet from a few years.
#135
Posted: 10/23/09 at 12:19am
Speaking of Carrie, does anyone know where I can find Clive Barnes' review of the original production? I know he was the sole major critic who liked it and have always wanted to read it. But the Post doesn't seem to have archives of old reviews online like the Times does, and I can't find it anywhere else...
#136
Posted: 10/23/09 at 8:45am
I used to have that review but can't find in anywhere grrr. It was a very positive review for the show
It also recieved some other positive reviews on Broadway (just not the big ones)
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/broadway/reviews/goodfun.htm
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/broadway/reviews/powerful.htm
Stratford
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/london/reviews/express.htm
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/london/reviews/today.htm
It also got afew others in the UK but you can't get hold of most of the reviews now
It also recieved some other positive reviews on Broadway (just not the big ones)
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/broadway/reviews/goodfun.htm
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/broadway/reviews/powerful.htm
Stratford
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/london/reviews/express.htm
http://www.graiai.com/carrie/london/reviews/today.htm
It also got afew others in the UK but you can't get hold of most of the reviews now
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#137
Posted: 10/23/09 at 9:25am
Most of the reviews are on http://www.carriethemusical.com .. But I'm not sure if I saw the NYP review..
"Movies will make you famous; television will make you rich; but theatre will make you good." - Terrence Mann.
#138
Posted: 10/23/09 at 6:52pm
Forgive my not knowing but what does it mean that it's a 29 hour reading? Also is this open to us mortals to see?
#139
Posted: 10/23/09 at 7:38pm
The New York Times review is on the Carrie website.
#140
Posted: 10/23/09 at 7:43pm
http://www.carriethemusical.com/carrieplayer1/reviews/nytimes.html
"This thread reads like a series of White House memos." — Mister Matt
#141
Posted: 10/23/09 at 8:45pm
"Forgive my not knowing but what does it mean that it's a 29 hour reading? Also is this open to us mortals to see?"
This means that over the course of two weeks they can use up to 29 hours for both rehearsals and the presentations of the reading. They can present a maximum of three readings and it is for invited audiences only.
Some of the other rules pertaining to the staged readings:
-no sets, props, wigs, make-up or costumes
-book in hand, no memorization, minimal staging and no choreography
-no advertising or reviews
-no admission can be charged
-no televising, broadcasting, visual and/or sound recording, motion picture filming or videotaping, in whole or in part
This means that over the course of two weeks they can use up to 29 hours for both rehearsals and the presentations of the reading. They can present a maximum of three readings and it is for invited audiences only.
Some of the other rules pertaining to the staged readings:
-no sets, props, wigs, make-up or costumes
-book in hand, no memorization, minimal staging and no choreography
-no advertising or reviews
-no admission can be charged
-no televising, broadcasting, visual and/or sound recording, motion picture filming or videotaping, in whole or in part
#142
Posted: 10/23/09 at 10:02pm
I think they meant the Post review which gave them a rave
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#143
Posted: 10/24/09 at 11:26am
Matt Doyle should play the boy friend
#144
Posted: 10/24/09 at 2:21pm
Wait what? This will be a revival? Why on Earth would they have turned it into a musical in the first place? Dumbest idea I've heard since, I don't know, Spiderman
#145
Posted: 10/24/09 at 3:20pm
Your chronology is out of order.
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#146
Posted: 10/24/09 at 3:33pm
Te he.
#147
Posted: 10/24/09 at 5:53pm
Rumor on ATC is that Marin Mazzie will be playing Margaret in the workshop.
Ugh, that's not very good. Might as well get Sarah Brightman.
Ugh, that's not very good. Might as well get Sarah Brightman.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#148
Posted: 10/28/09 at 2:08am
I keep waiting to see if an open call will be posted. A. Because im totally auditioning B. It will have more facts maybe reveal some more about the reading. Im so interested to see how this pieces out, what they decide to keep/cut and what new material will be added. I would do anything to get in on that reading, Carrie is defiently more than just a guilty pleasure to me.
#149
Posted: 10/28/09 at 2:56am
there is no open call, auditions were last week, and it's already been cast.
marin mazzie is margaret.
word on the street is that sutton foster is in it too - which role i can't imagine. the gym teacher?
marin mazzie is margaret.
word on the street is that sutton foster is in it too - which role i can't imagine. the gym teacher?
#150
Posted: 10/28/09 at 9:34am
Marin Mazzie is an interesting choice--vocally closer to Barbara Cook than Betty Buckley. She has the requisite intensity required for the role, and I think she'll be killer (no pun intended). Whatever anyone thinks of the show, you have to admit that a good chunk of Margaret's music--"Open Your Heart," "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance," "When There's No One"--is stunning.
I hope that Sutton Foster isn't Carrie. Please, no more 35-year-olds playing teenagers.
I hope that Sutton Foster isn't Carrie. Please, no more 35-year-olds playing teenagers.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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