Carrie, the Musical - Charlotte Interview- Page 5

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 7/27/05 at 4:20pm

That performance of "Eve Was Week" from Betty's show at Carnegie Hall is terrific, partly because of the huge orchestra playing the score. But yes, they were WAY off with the music...

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/1/05 at 5:25pm

EDIT: MOVED THE PLAYBILL.

It's on my site, though: http://playbillcollection.tripod.com

Updated On: 8/9/05 at 05:25 PM

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:12pm

CHARLOTTE TALKS ABOUT CARRIE: (2003)

Q: You were also part of a musical that has one of the largest cult followings, Carrie.
CD: Oh God, yeah, I know! [Laughs.]

Q: What was it like being in that show?
CD: That was a little harder. Coming off of Song & Dance — [Carrie] was the first thing that was a flop that I was in. And, also it was just really hard. We went to London first and did it there. And we had Barbara Cook, who did the part [of Carrie's mother]. We just got creamed there, got horrible reviews, and then they didn't change a thing — it was the weirdest thing — except for Betty Buckley [who replaced Cook] — that was the only change. Nothing changed. And I thought, 'Oh my God!' And we all just knew we were going to get creamed. It was just one of those things that you had to go out there, do your best and just get through it.

Q: And it's a shame because parts of the score are really strong.
CD: Part of the score — the stuff with Linzi [Hateley] and Betty Buckley, the two of them, is pretty amazing, really amazing. Actually I listened to it recently — one of those tapes that are going around — and thought, 'God, God,' and boy were they brilliant, really brilliant. It gave me chills listening to it. Their stuff was really amazing, and actually the subject matter was kind of interesting — an abusive situation. . .

Q: Too bad it never got recorded.
CD: I know, and there'd been a lot of talk about it for a long time, but it never did. I'm so surprised that it didn't because I have to tell you, I went on tour with Chicago, and every city I would go to, people would come and they were all Carrie fans and never anything else. [Laughs.] A show that I did two weeks — we literally did two weeks of that show, previewed it for two weeks and opened on a weekend and closed.

http://www.playbill.com/celebritybuzz/article/82503.html

[broadwaybelter]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:38pm

hahah!

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 4:41pm

Funny I just had my Carrie playbill lol.

[Rosamund]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:29pm

I saw the show seven (SEVEN) times ... we were running around the streets, running in to bars, telling everyone we knew to go and see it.

and so ... the story goes from a Seth's Chatterbox ... the design team was on the phone here in the states with the people who were going to be executing the designs overseas ... they said "we want the sets to look like GREASE" and they were all, like, "oh, okay, Greece" ... and that's why the set looked like that.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 5:31pm

HAHA - I heard that story...

I think it is the funniest thing ever.

[nodaybut2day2007]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 8:44pm

where are the rights to this show? I am in love with it.

[ruthiefan_felix]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 10:35pm

This makes me wanna see the show SO badly!
I think that they should hold a concert SOMEWHERE with the original casts, you know: Betty Buckley, Linzi Hateley, Charlotte, Sally Ann Triplett...etc I don't think any of the cast members are dead yet.....
But wouldn't it be a LOVELY idea?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 8/11/05 at 10:42pm

How quickly they forget. Gene Anthony Ray died in 2003.

At least I will always have my cherished memories of seeing the first American preview. Tenth row center.

[Thenardier]

Posted: 8/12/05 at 1:27am

I know, Namo.

I think that depresses me when I listen to it...and watch the rehearsals.

[OutForBlood]

Posted: 9/19/05 at 10:14pm

I've been a Carrie fan since 2000.
Amazing show.

If you ever read the Workshop script you'll wonder why it was slaughtered before broadway. Because that script makes the show easy to follow and not blotched into an almost sing-through musical.
The workshop made the telekinesis more believable and more emotional. The act 1 finale of the workshop ended with scene from the film of carrie and her mother at the dinner table and carrie slams all the windows shut (instead of the whole pyrokenisis act 1 finale of fire coming from her hands).


My favorite production by far of course the workshop. But Betty Buckley as Margaret White on Broadway will always be the most memorable role ever.
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Updated On: 9/19/05 at 10:14 PM