Happy 20th Anniversary CARRIE!- Page 3

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:08pm

God, that last photo looks like Elizabeth Hurley in one of her sixties mod outfits from AUSTIN POWERS wondering what she is doing in the middle of THE LORD OF THE DANCE.

[Not Barker, Todd.]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 5:08pm

There's a good show in there . . .

[DidYouReallyHearMe]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:17pm

I was waiting for someone to make this a thread!

20 years...

I still think they should have done a concert version for BC/EFA. That would have made quite a lot of money.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:19pm

They still could.

If only there was a picture of the "Destruction"...the lasers don't show up too well on the DVD.

[uncageg]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:28pm

Here's my contribution.

http://theater2.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?_r=1&res=940DE7DA133FF930A25756C0A96E948260&oref=slogin

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 6:35pm

Borstalboy. 'West End 80s popish nonsense' Funny that, being as the choreography was by an American and the show was always meant to be for a Broadway /American audience. Considering it was the late 80s it looked pretty OK on stage at the time i saw it (of course we can laugh at it now)- has anything from the 80s aged well-not much! Also, even tho it was produced by the RSC the show was never ever meant for a West End run. Working in the West End at that time there was no mention of this show opening in London.

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 06:35 PM

[Robert Taylor]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 7:48pm

Don't waste the moon y'all!

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:27pm

My first ever trip to New York started the day after Carrie closed, I remember seeing the ads in the New York Times and had booked tickets for it from Australia. I stood out the front of the theatre and cried, somewhere at my mums house is a about 100 pictures of that theatre. It finally took me till earlier this year to find a boot cd. Now i need to find is a Dvd!

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 10:43pm

Send me some of those photos of the Virginia Theatre exterior and then we can talk about a DVD.

Capice?

[rosscoe(au)]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:08pm

Brody,

My mum lives about 4,00km away next time iam there i find them for you!!

[bwayguy22089]

Posted: 4/28/08 at 11:26pm

They need to rework this, change the marketing approach and bring it back!

I'm actually not kidding.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:07am

Aww i watched this when i was a kid in Stratford and loved it.The audience were really in to it and it go great applause at the end.
The night i was there someone fell of the platform which the cars were on during "Dont Waste The Moon" but just got up and carried on, though his partner in the car could not stop laughing the rest of the song.
I can remember people actually gasping when the white staircase was lowered, it looked jaw dropping (made no sense of course)

I still watch the Stratford one and act 1 broadway on dvd every other week as well as listen to the sound boards .

When i was in a show in London i ended up out in the same bar as Linzi (she was doing a show at the time in london) and we spoke about Carrie.She loved the show and is very proud of it, she said that she wished the director would have seen the problems in previews but he didn't he just added more effects to the show and demanded the choreography be worked on.

Apparently they were told on the friday night that they would fight through the reviews and stay open as they new it could find an audience, however on saturday the closing notice was posted and sunday would be the last year

They were a lot of arguments that weekend with some people (hands) wanting to close the show whilst others wanted to give it a shot.A lot of people till believe that the show could have rode through the rough patch after the reviews and found an audience (Carrie was going to be advertised to the MTV generation)

The show could have run in my opinion, whilst Carrie's reviews were negative it did have a handful of good one in both the UK (where it received a lot better reviews than people remember ) and the US.

The producers and creative team need to revisit Carrie and get this show back on its feet

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:12am

Oh yeah and i think i must have everything to do with Carrie but still got no pics of the theatre (outside) if anyone has any can you post them XXXX

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 8:23am

This show needs to be revived ASAP!

[stagescreen]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 9:07am

I don't normally do these bits of shameless self promotion, but it ties in nicely to this thread, and if there's a target audience for my upcoming radio show, it's you guys:

In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of CARRIE, on my radio show this Sunday, I'll be featuring the tiniest tidbits of music from CARRIE (what's ok per FCC rules) and celebrating the greatest trainwrecks of flops past as well. Plus, Michael Cerveris will be live in the studio...he's filming a movie in New Orleans right now and will be playing a solo show on May 10 in New Orleans. He's also going to help spin some of the greatest songs from flop shows!

Tune in live on the web (via iTunes) this Sunday morning from 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon (Central Standard Time) (11 AM-1 PM EST) on WTUL 91.5 FM.
WTUL webcast

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 9:11am

http://carriefansite.blogspot.com/2008/02/carrie-musical-premiere-performance.html

Just found this. AMAZING

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 9:16am

Thats the dvd i got from the RSC 8 years ago on that site

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:12am

I share a birthday with Carrie!

[Cape Twirl of Doom]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:25am

What's the story of the near-decapitation? I watched that video on the site posted above but I didn't notice anything amiss. Was it when the white staircase descended? (wtf was that anyway? I thought she was in the school and then she's on a white staircase?)

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:50am

For Margaret White's entrance, the wooden set which represents the White home slowly glides on stage. As its moving forward, the wooden plank that is the wall of the house flips (like a garage door) as the floor wooden plank glides into place. Margaret is sitting as this floor wooden plank moves forward -- Barbara Cook was almost knocked on the head with the flipping wall plank as it was moving into place. Barbara is the one that said she was almost decapitated therefore left the show for this reason (Betty Buckley replaced her for the Broadway incarnation of the show).

Hope that made sense.

Here's Betty and Linzi on that White house set. They're holding onto the trapdoor lid where Betty will be throwing Linzi into (during the "And Eve was Weak" number):

[Roscoe]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 10:59am

The stair case came about as follows:

As Carrie wreaks her vengeance on the prom, Carrie stands center stage on a platform that suddenly rises. As the students writhe in agony and lasers lased, the back wall of the set folded over somehow to become a gigantic flight of stairs, with a convenient hole for Carrie's platform to fit into, obscuring the destroyed prom altogether. Carrie's mother descended the stairs, and things went from there.

No, really. That's what happened.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 11:39am

I honestly think if this was revived now with a moderate budget and a good cast (which they could very well assemble) it could be a hit.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 11:43am

Apparently the staircase is supposed to represent the back steps of the gym...I forget where I read that though.

ETA: I always thought it was opening up like a pizza box...not like a garage door...

Updated On: 4/29/08 at 11:43 AM

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 11:45am

I definitely need to learn more about this show. Just the costumes are enough to horrify me.

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 4/29/08 at 11:49am

I love this show so much...I never get sick of watching or listening to it. I really do think the score is very good, and would bet that a concert would sell out so fast it's not even funny. I got the video of the Norway school production of this from the director and loved seeing the show with a new take on the staging....and in another language..but still it just when to prove that it IS a good show, just got a bad rap from staging