Just seen on Facebook. Carrie's back, bitches!

[finishmyhat]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 5:51pm

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/31/a-date-for-the-prom-carrie-sets-key-casting-and-first-performance-off-broadway/

Let the chatter begin!

[steven22]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 5:55pm

Love anything with Marin Mazzie!

[aasjb4ever]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:01pm

Love love love Marin. She was inspired in Next to Normal.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:02pm

Bitches?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:13pm

Oh, em, gee, it's going to be awemasomezing.

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:15pm

Yay Molly!!!!!!!!!!!

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:28pm

Is it going to transfer to Broadway? And, if so, is there going to be a rush?!

Seriously, exciting news. I'll definitely be seeing this.

[hyperbole_and_a_half]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 6:49pm

I felt like the 2009 workshop was a total, top-to-bottom miscast and I know I am not the only one. I am excited to learn that Carrie is returning, but perplexed to see the producers hitching their wagons to those horses.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 7:00pm

Show curtain?

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 7:21pm

Excited, can not wait.
Though im shocked Molly is staying on as i thought she was pretty weak in the workshop.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 7:26pm

I'm still hoping they restore "I'm Not Alone." I missed it in the workshop version.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 7:28pm

Marin will KILL "When There's No One." I am SOBBING already. I may have to subscribe just so Im guaranteed a seat. :)

[CarmenDeBris]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 8:37pm

Yay Marin! Im still not sold on Molly...there better be some uglying down involved...I do hope than Sutton will stay on too!

[binau]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 9:01pm

Why would the then two-time lead actress Tony Award winner Sutton Foster want to be part of this show if she wasn't playing Margaret herself?

[hyperbole_and_a_half]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:14pm

Foster will not leave Anything Goes for Carrie, and that's a positive for Anything Goes (where she is good) and a positive for Carrie (where she was emphatically not good).

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:17pm

Maybe Betty Buckley could reprise the gym teacher? Maybe get Amy Irving-that would be pretty cool.

[broadwaybabytn]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:38pm

"Yay Marin! Im still not sold on Molly...there better be some uglying down involved...I do hope that Sutton will stay on too!"

Why would you say "Yay Marin!" when you "do hope that Sutton will stay on" in the same role?? I'm confused.

[BwayTday]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:45pm

Sutton played the gym teacher not Mrs. White.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 10:59pm

"Though im shocked Molly is staying on as i thought she was pretty weak in the workshop."

No, no, everything's gonna be fine. It'll all come together the night of the show. It's gonna be a license to print money. This show is such a proven commodity, even a little miscasting can't hurt it. Carrie will run forever!

Optimism, theatre people, optimism!

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:03pm

I think this is a step in the right direction, but the right direction is NOT Broadway, in this show's case. It's regional licensing.

"Carrie" is by no means a perfect show. It's a fairly decent show of occasionally exceptional, occasionally mediocre material, married to memories of an exceptionally polarizing production. Frankly, "Carrie" could probably be done better at small theatres, colleges and regionals around the country than it was done on Broadway, and would have more of a life that way.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:20pm

"Show curtain?"

It will be made entirely of used tampons.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:23pm

I hope they're going to try to make this something more substantial than a period piece, TD.

[binau]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:30pm

hahahahahahahahahaha

[TheLadyoftheWood]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:30pm

NO NO NO! I want the Margaret White song sung in the Betty Buckley keys not the new transposed less exciting ones!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/31/11 at 11:36pm

No, no, it'll be FINE!!!