Carriethemusical.com: Complete Casting Announced for 2009 Reading of Carrie — Page 3

In all the discussions about Marin Mazzie, I noticed that no one mentioned the Encores! Kismet with her as Lalume and Brian Stokes Mitchell as Hadj -- THAT was a great pairing and they both played it to the hilt.

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I think Amy Spanger is in Miss Gardner range now

Namo, (or should I resort to altering your name in that infantile way you love to do with others and call you Namrod? or some other lame fourth-grader approach) you still can't read and you're still acting like a pathetic middle-aged schoolyard bully, hunting down and attacking others on a Broadway message board.

To what purpose? You're an instigator. An antagonist. So much for being smart. And far be it from you to leave well enough alone, right? No high road for you.

"According to Susan Sontag, "The essence of Camp is its love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration. And Camp is esoteric -- something of a private code, a badge of identity even, among small urban cliques." (Notes on Camp)"

If you're going to quote someone like Sontag in your personal attacks, at least be accurate about it.

And at least be accurate about my primary comments raised about the camp factor of Stephen King and "Carrie" which had to do with the "subtlety" of Marin Mazzie as a performer and King's over-the-top story elements and characters. They are directly in line with Sontag's fundamental definition of camp, not that I needed her to give me help with a slang word. But it seems like you need a flowchart to help you follow the course of the comments.

So go ahead now and dig yourself deeper with another isolated example and reverse the order of the remarks to suit your purpose. Show the "kids in the yard" exactly what the bully is made of while you're at it. Impress us all. Follow me around from thread to thread like a sad junkyard dog. Obsess and dote over my every comment and word choice, poised to attack like an amateur litigation lawyer.

But remember, with each antagonistic post, you only serve to prove my point about you.




Sontag's definition of camp

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Updated On: 11/1/09 at 02:15 PM

Wow, Amy sure doesn't look 38. I guess Nikki Snelson could also make a good Chris.

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If people like Amy Spanger and Nikki Snelson are cast as high schoolers then expect a re-do of the original production. How can you cast 38 year olds as high schoolers when you have a teenager like Damiano playing Carrie?

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Question: Was Barbara Cook replaced for Broadway, or did she leave the production?

I always wondered if the "almost decapitated" was a bit of an exaggeration. That garage door opener, excuse me, moving wall set went so slow on Broadway you had time to duck under and wave goodbye to Betty and Linzi.

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Oh I'm sure they would have. It was a big deal to have Barbara Cook back on the stage. It was a major coup for the RSC to get her. But I think she made it clear rather early (maybe even before the show opened) that she decided to not continue with the production.

I feel like there was talk of somebody else replacing her before Buckley's name emerged.

Since there has been so much 'what if' talk about casting the roles according to how Stephen King describes them in the book - its perhaps worth noting that Cook fits the description of Margaret in the novel almost exactly: A large woman with blond hair who had been a very attractive pert young woman.

That's what I think too ljay.

The legend is, of course, that she sent Terry Hands a sledgehammer.

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Alice Ripley has done some serious damage to her voice over the last few years though. Frankly, I bet she couldn't sing it anymore which is really unfortunate.

Well the damage definitely started long before NEXT TO NORMAL. Maybe during her rock years, I don't know. I do know that yes, people have spoken to her about it and that it has at least cost her some recording gigs. I'm sure rest could probably help the problem but who knows how its progressed singing that NEXT TO NORMAL score every night.

I think she'd probably have to have surgery at this point but of course that can be just as risky.