CARRIE extension cancelled
CARRIE extension cancelled
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#1CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 11:53am
Show will close April 8th. She's still cursed.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/CARRIE-Extension-Cancelled-Show-to-Close-April-8-20120323
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:12pmI'm sorry you guys. I know a lot of you really think there's something of value buried somewhere in the very notion of Carrie: The Musical.
#3CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:14pmAww- That's too bad! My daughter and I really enjoyed it! (the good and the bad)
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#4CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:16pmI didn't love the production at all. Thought it was beyond boring. But I do love some of that score... Too bad. I guess they weren't selling as well as they'd thought.
#5CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:16pmI do feel bad for anyone who planned travel based on the extension.
#6CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:19pm
Shocker!
I am very glad to have had the opportunity to see a production of this show, not to mention Marin Mazzie. However, the show was terrible. It had very few promising moments. Most were in the design and not the actual performances. I was bored by the ensemble who appeared to be cast from American Idol rejects, but that is another topic entirely. This production should be grateful that they had a run, at all.
Vespertine1228
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/30/05
#7CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:26pmThe production obviously had major show queen interest, but I think that was the only audience clamoring for Carrie's return. Once word got out that the show still isn't great, and even more that it's super serious and not much fun, the general theatregoing audience wasn't interested.
#8CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:29pmI agree that it was a bad idea from the word go; unfortunately it seems that in the theatre, no one recognizes a bad idea until it loses money (probably because a lot of bad ideas have been bizarrely successful).
#9CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:35pm
Ugh. Bad news. 
I saw it on Tuesday and thoroughly enjoyed it, if only to hear Marin sing When There's No One.
#10CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:35pmI certainly don't think the idea to try the show again was a bad one, but I do feel this revival though well meaning was misguided. Just bringing back the original script/score with a tongue in cheek homage to the original staging probably would have ultimately been a lot more fun and a lot more successful.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#11CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:41pm
Just bringing back the original script/score with a tongue in cheek homage to the original staging probably would have ultimately been a lot more fun and a lot more successful.
Agreed. Trying too hard to cover up its flaws? Much easier to show why it was such a big deal in the first place. At least more entertaining.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#12CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 12:41pmIf it had major show queen interest it certainly would have sold through an extension. Given that extension ticket buyers are offered the opportunity to reschedule for earlier shows, I would have to say this reflects almost no show queen interest at all. It's the Lucillie Lortel, not the Palace.
#13CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:00pmAlthough it's always unfortunate when a show closes (for the cast and crew), this show wasn't very good and I'm not surprised. I would be surprised, though, if Molly Ranson doesn't land a good role in the near future.
Returning Member
Chorus Member Joined: 12/14/10
#14CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:16pmI thought the show was fantastic. I'll look forward to regional life. If nothing else, the material will allow tons of professionals to have a creative blast in other productions.
#15CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:31pmThat's such a shame! I know a lot of people who were really excited about seeing it.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#16CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:36pm
"If nothing else, the material will allow tons of professionals to have a creative blast in other productions."
Why do we think that will happen at all? Because it's being taped for the Lincoln Center Archives? There's no cast recording, it couldn't sell in an Off-Broadway teeny theater.
#17CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:46pmWill the show be licensed, or is it going back in the vault for good?
#18CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 1:50pm
I think that remains to be seen. As others have pointed out, if the show is licensed, the creative team is going to have to accept that a lot of productions will (regardless of the terms of the contract) likely include material from the original script/score, or at the very least stage the show in a way that borders on camp/parody.
Since they were so uptight in their desire to completely eradicate those elements for this staging, I think the verdict is still out if they are going to allow productions to be staged that are outside of their control.
#19CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 2:27pmI think they should musicalize THE SHINING next, but make it a story about writer's block.
broadwayguy2
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
#20CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 2:30pm
When I saw the show, the only GLARING problem I had with the show were the often awkward moments of Sue's narration, flipping out of and back into the scene.
Beyond that, any other groan - inducing moments were, for me, the product of Stafford Arima's inability to direct and the choices he led his cast and creatives to make, particularly working in a black box space. Yes, 17 actors and 8 musicians is quite impressive in such a small theatre - on paper, but there were no students at the prom! The direction was sloppy and the blocking was often a mess. The first levitation effect was great, but where he staged it robbed the scene of all impact... until the end of act one, where the window effect would have been great were they not basic projections. Too many missed opportunities abounded in moments such as that. Having the unit set be the destroyed gym meant that there was nowhere to go for the actual destruction. The actual bucket drop was a let down, but the blood splash was great.. until the girl playing Chris stepped into the red spotlight on Carrie... and having the men die hanging on the wall and the streamers seemed to have followed Carrie home from the prom? Bad choices..
As far as casting goes, I rather enjoyed Ranson, Tolpegin (Mazzie was out..), Altomare, Cusack, Klena, Boardman, Mientus and Noble. De Waal and Thompson was comically bad. The rest I could have done without and didn't leave any impact
#21CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 2:57pm
I think they should musicalize THE SHINING next, but make it a story about writer's block.
LOL
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#22CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 4:08pm'Salem's Lot, the musical, about a town full of misunderstood insomniacs.
#23CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 4:08pmI think recording the show will be the only thing not to make this venture a complete waste of time. Audiences apparently do not want to see this show (ticket sales were much slower after the show opened. Maybe we can coin this the "FOLLIES effect" :P? The show sells out early on because of keen/eager fans and theatre goers and then extends but staggers till closing after the fans have all seen the show and it doesn't catch on with the general public), and I doubt it is going to go to Broadway. But finally having the score, much of which sounds better here than ever (e.g. IN) preserved in a studio, will preserve the changes/performances/show, finally.
#24CARRIE extension cancelled
Posted: 3/23/12 at 4:22pmCUJO: THE MUSICAL. A story about the dire importance of vaccinations.
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