Carrie Revival?

Hey guys... the following message was posted on the west end board, thought you might be interested:

"OH MY GOD i recieved a submission list from my agent today and what was on it
looking for strong singers and dancers for a new wworkshop production of CARRIE THE MUSICAL
i cant belive it .For thoose of you who dont know carrie was a 8million dollar flop on broadway in 1988 and starred the lovely linzi hately(then 17)and betty buckley as well as sally ann tripplet gene anthony ray and darlene love.The show gathered a huge cult following ever since(coz a lot of the show was bloody good just badly staged)and has been crying out for a return ever since and now it looks like it just might have one.Carrie of course is based on the stephen king horror novel and film but makes for a hugely exciting musical(i have a pirate copy from stratford where it originally opened in 88 before moving to new york on dvd )
We often have many submisions for workshops that never happen lets hope this issnt one of them coz this is one show that needs to come back."

another poster then says that they have cut the following songs:

IN
Dream On
Wotta Night
Hurts to be Strong
Out for Blood
Open Your Heart
Heaven

The last two, i am suprised at as they are both quite good songs, especially the octet in heaven! "In" has supposedly been replaced with the original workshop "ain't it a bitch." Who knows how true this is, but there ya go.

Out for Blood is my Favorite! and so is IN! and Hurts to be Strong needs to be in it! the others, its not a major hit.

havent heard waste the moon (exedore can u send it to me?) but yes i agree Open Your Heart is beautiful, u see the kind and nice side to Margaret and u learn to like her as a charcter

Please GOD let this be true.

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Please God let this be true! I would fly to London to see it!

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Exactly, overthemoon, and we need to keep it that way. Debbie Allen isn't so much non-talented as anti-talented. She's like the anti-chirst of dancing. She can take whatever might have been good and turn it into stomach churning awfulness.

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fanominal?

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Oh.

Well, just because it's a famous Broadway flop doesn't mean it's going to be sold out. Only hardcore theatregoers have ever heard of it. And being that 70% of the audience on Broadway today is tourists...it's not exactly going to be an easy sell.

Unless it has an amazing cast.

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I will be playing Carrie, and Linzi Hately will be playing my mother. Its going to be a hit.

It was originally posted on the West End board by someone very credible in the past. Also there has been discussion about this workshop around the other london based boards and a few friends in the biz.

Awww, I love most of those songs! At least some of the songs live on in The Wedding Singer.

nycboi - I agree.

Carrie is CARRIE because of every aspect of it - good and bad.

You could make the show an absolute, brilliant masterpiece, lacking flaws...but then it isn't the CARRIE we all love.

I also agree, carrie could be brilliant. Some of the scenes make for incredibly intense theater. I think that definitely needs to be done seriously, and i agree it needs rewrites. "dream on" was probably one of the worst songs ever written for musical theater. And those girls who were sharp everytime they hit the 'ooooonnn...' UGGG
I think the potential is there for one of the most roller coaster rides of musical theater. The crazy intense mother/daughter scenes in counterpoint with chris/sue/teenagers... the show just needs to find more balance and also explain carrie's powers a bit better.