Happy 20th Anniversary CARRIE! — Page 3

There's a good show in there . . .

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They still could.

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

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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.

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

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!

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Brody,

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

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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

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This show needs to be revived ASAP!

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

Just found this. AMAZING

I share a birthday with Carrie!

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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):

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.

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

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