CARRIE Reviews — Page 4

newintown.

I am totally in awe of your ignorance.

thanks for posting the links all in one place, it's such an odd night that it can get 5 stars from one place and 1 star from another. Most seem to be mixed.

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Phantom.

You're a blithering idiot.

My - that IS so much easier than exchanging ideas, isn't it? Thank you for lowering the bar.

Updated On: 3/2/12 at 10:36 AM

A review that says "the show doesn't work, but Mazzie sings well" is NOT a "mixed" review.

A mixed review would say "the show has some problems that could be solved, and works much of the time."

The reviews for this show are almost all negative.

"Ben Brantley's opinion is the same as Linda at Newsday etc."

If you believe that, then you really know nothing at all about New York theatre.

More pointless and narcissistic CARRIE bitching! YAY!!!


Stay tuned for next week's episode: GHOST

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owen you know exactly how you were wrong but never responded to my PM.

And i am seen as a very good critic than you very much, a very fair one.

And Carrie is NOT one of my 30 best musicals at all, not even close, it's one of my fave flop musicals. I have been on this board for many years talking about many things, it's only recently that i have gone on to Carrie overload as every aspect of this production has interested me, from a production point of view.

And i would hope in the future to produce Carrie (which by the way would not be the Brits first exposure to the musical since it started life in UK) and our production would be vastly different from what is currently playing. I enjoyed what is playing now but as i have said numerous times it's not how i (or any of my team) would do it.

As for the 'dangerous' comment, you are more melodramatic than this musical itself, you are absurd.

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Updated On: 3/2/12 at 11:07 AM

Idiot i agree 100 percent, and that is the way we would love to do it, keep it grounded in reality and human but at the same time have fun with it, a thrill ride, lighten it up. Enjoy the madness.

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Good lord there sure are a lot of over-inflated, moronic, and obnoxious fools on this board. Owen and Newintown being the leaders of the pack in my opinion. Blaxx is up there too.

If you have a negative opinion of something that is FINE. It is also fine to share that opinion and to MATURELY discuss why it is that you don't like something. But to constantly belittle something with the same arguments over and over is just stupid. You're being stupid. And yes, you may have the critics on your side, but who gives a damn about critics anymore!? Movie critics, book critics, theater critics? No one cares what they have to say anymore and people go to see what they want to see. Furthermore did anyone stop to think that PERHAPS these theater critics went in to the show (as the rest of you negative fools did) already hating the show and refusing to give it a positive review? I bet you that half the critics went to see the show with their review already written and saved on their computer. People WANT Carrie to stay buried in history marked as the worst show that was ever created. And that simply isn't so. There are far worse shows out there. But it all depends on personal taste. And so you can have your opinion and hate the show, the cast, the director, score, book, set, theater in general. That is fine. But don't keep attacking the show and the people that do like it because WE HEAR YOU! You're like little children in 1st grade. They keep screaming mean and nasty things until someone finally says "Yes, we see you. You can sit down now." So, yes, Newintown, Owen, Blaxx ... We see you.

And before anyone here decides to flame me for being a "lurker" who DARED to speak up on YOUR message boards .... Yes I am a lurker. I read these boards all the time. Why I don't know because they are only EVER negative nasty remarks on the theater that you supposedly love so much. But I don't care to post because, frankly, I have more important things to do than waste my time arguing with people who only ever have nasty things to say. And while I'm on the subject ... what EXACTLY makes you feel that your word is ALWAYS the final word on ANY subject regarding theater? If you were all that successful in big time theater you'd be far too busy to continually write on these boards and tear things apart. What'd you do that makes you such an expert on what's good or bad? Community theater? Ok.... I'm not saying that my word is greater than yours because it's all just an opinion but you don't see me here tearing things apart and blasting people for liking something.

Lastly, I saw CARRIE twice in it's previews. And I really enjoyed it. I wasn't sure what to expect because the photos I had seen made it look less than thrilling. What I got was really exciting and creative theater and a beautiful story. Are there things that maybe could have been better? Sure. I too would have liked to see Margaret a bit more scary than so loving. And the line in "The World According To Chris" where Tommy tells Sue to simply apologize and she says "Tommy, you're a genius!" is a bit stupid to me. But over all the show, to me, was fantastic. Maybe because I was bullied so much as a child. Maybe that's why it touches me and moves me more than some others (because I find it hard to believe that some of you haven't been bullies your entire life). But I will tell you that the second time I saw the show I took a bunch of people with me who don't know anything about theater and have nothing invested in this show either way and they loved it and thought the cast was wonderful. And BOTH times I looked around and saw people crying, gasping, laughing, and enjoying the show and both times it got a standing ovation. So, you can think what you want, but I think that what you want is to hate something. So go ahead and hate it. But I rather enjoyed it and so have a lot of people. And that's fine too.

I do dearly love when lowbrow lurkers get on their high horse and tell us all off. That's good theatre.

Well, better than Carrie, at least...

"And as for an ego, i don't believe for a second i have an ego because i am posting my opinions, i may get angry etc but that is only because people like you p**s me off by attacking me all the time so i have to defend myself."

Well, there you go. :)

And please don't pretend I'm the only one on these Broadway.com boards that has ever inferred that you lie.

The thing that the writers are going to have to watch for, should they license it, are people continuing to tinker with it. Look at how many people complained about certain songs, such as "I'm Not Alone," being cut. With how widely available recordings, the original scripts, and original scores are you would have to be completely naive to believe that nobody is going to try to toss that one back in, amongst others.

If licensed it's going to become the next Cabaret, with community theatre directors and college professors endlessly cutting and rewriting and restoring various sections of the show so they can make the version of Carrie that they think works the best.