"it's a big deal to "theater" people. Hell i bet if someone did a "glory days" revival in 10 years theater people would go NUTS! "
The 2 shows are so far removed its not even a comparison, one became apart of theatre history from its previews to today, the other was history is a few days. People i know here in the UK know about Carrie the Musical, hell the recent workshop made the UK Press.
Also the fact that many may not know the history of this show means nothing, when many new shows open on Broadwasy they have no history, thatâ??s how theatre works. The show is coming back because the show itself made an impact, it was a show that could have worked; now it get the chance to be done as its initial 84 workshop for example intended.
Urinetown was not based on an Oscar Nominated film which is still regarded as one of the greatest Horror films of all time (again recently a TV countdown as voted for by the public of the best horror films of all time placed Carrie inside the top 10)
The show is also not aimed at teens and teenâ??s donâ??t keep broadway alive, this show is more aimed at audience members in their 20s, 30s or 40s, it will be aimed at the gay audience (Carrie is gay fave) and people wanting something a bit new and different.
Many people thought In The Heights would fail because it was based around Rap, and what theatre person could actually like Rap!, well they did and it worked (i could list so many examples)
"Urinetown is one of (if not the best) original musical in the past 10 years. Move over ave q it was urinetown in my opinion. It barely recouped in nyc and died on the road. The average american doesn't want to think when they go to the theater they want to be entertained! (mamma mia, jersey boys, PHANTOM, Wicked, even ROA yes people get over it it will be here for a long long time). Spectacle and no thought. Leave your brain at home. Welcome to the age of stagnant thought in mainstream theater.
This is why carrie will never work. Oh and you cannot have a girl's mother stab her then the girl with her dying wish impale the mother on a cross at the end of a musical on broadway wand have it run for more than 6 months. That too. "
You have just contradicted yourself
Carrie is not a show in which you have to think, the story is simple, the effects will be fun (making it a spectacle like the original) and itâ??s a thrill ride, good fun, camp and pulp entertainment, itâ??s got more in common with a show like Phantom than it does any of the shows you have to 'think' in.
As for the whole mother daughter stabbing rubbish you are going on about, why are you speaking for people, this is something which has worked as a Novel and a Movie, audiences going to theatre are not from a different planet, they watch movies and they will have seen much worse. Miss Saigon has no happy ending, we see the young guys of Les Mis shot down and hanging from the barricades
Plus look at Opera, Opera always contains death and tragedy and they seem to work.
You are forgetting that Carrie did not flop last time because of the source material, it flopped because it was a bad production of a good show screaming to get out. Also remember in Stratford when it opened it was one of the fastest selling shows the RSC ever had and sold out.
Don't speak for an audience, they sat through talking trains, a woman with Mental Illness, talking and dancing cats, A show about drag queens, one about Aids, underage sex and so on and so on.
Maybe you would be happier if all shows were bouncy and light with a happy ending but many many audience members will want something a bit different.
We live in 2009, the theatre world has evolved, we see things on stage we never thought we would see, its exciting and thrilling, its fresh and new, it moves us in different ways rather than just a breezy romantic comedy,
Carrie has a lot going in its favour, more than most shows. For the theatre fans its just about the fact that Carrie is back, something they probably never thought they would see. For the teens its something a bit grown up but still accessible, essentially Carrie is a story about wanting to fit in and bullying. The Gay audiences would eat Carrie up and the couples will go because they probably saw the film and there intrigued, other will go to see what its all about
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Updated On: 11/23/09 at 01:44 PM
