Marin Mazzie Is Still In Carrie? Sad Day...- Page 2

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 1:51pm

I can't wait for the bootlegs! I'm gonna to equate seeing them with seeing the show live!

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:17pm

Color me crazy, but I think Mazzie is perfect for Margret White.

After seeing her in Next to Normal, where vocally she's basically chanelling Betty Buckley, I think she'll be terrific.

But who is Jenn Gambatese playing? The Charlotte D'Amboise part? Or Sue?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:43pm

I would imagine Jen Gambatese is playing the gym teacher - played by Sutton Foster in the last reading.

[TheatreFan4]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:52pm

After seeing her in Next to Normal, where vocally she's basically chanelling Betty Buckley, I think she'll be terrific.

She's kind of mix between Barbara Cook & Betty.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 2:58pm

Marin Mazzie is one of the finest singing actors out there today. She doesn't vocally "channel" anyone. Her voice is her own, and it is a treasure.

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:04pm

Oh my gravy, I'd give my left kidney to be at this reading tonight.

So Jen is the gym teacher? Sounds improbable. She's perfect for Sue, and would do justice to "It Hurts to Be Strong."

However, is it just me? I listened to all of the songs on YouTube from the 2009 reading, and they are exactly the same songs they did on Broadway. Is there a re-write going on?

I think "Carrie" can be fixed, but it doesn't sound like they're doing it.

[dramarama3]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:13pm

The entire bootleg of the workshop is on youtube, I believe.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:17pm

Honey, Jen is 35 years old. She's playing the gym teacher I assure you.

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:26pm

Really? She looks totally like an ingenue. Bless her! 35 years old? Really?

Gym teacher is kind of a sucky role. Darlene Love made it her own, but she has a crap song

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:28pm

It Hurts to Be Strong is gone, I believe. My iPhone app is down, so I can't be sure.
Updated On: 11/9/10 at 03:28 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:29pm

...are people really fretting about the prospect of CARRIE being ruined?

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 3:53pm

Kad, don't be callous. Can't you tell from the thread title this is a SAD DAY? Show some respect.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 4:15pm

Judy Kuhn's voice would be killer but I can't see her having the electric presence needed to flesh out Margaret White.

I think Marin is great, but can she be a force of nature on stage as required?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 4:35pm

The only real choice of the current Broadway divas to match Buckly's intensity is Donna Murphy.

But from what has been written about this new revival it sounds like they are trying to soften and make the character of Margaret more sympathetic. Make of that what you will, but if thats the direction they are going in than Mazzie is probably a very solid choice. She's a very strong actress

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 5:58pm

Ah yes, the Youtube...mystery solved!

Listened to the new and improved 2009 "In" which I can't believe wasn't cut or at least drastically re-written.

Glad to hear Dean Pitchford is so down with teen lingo. I mean seriously, phrases like "where it's at" and "it's the pits" were laughably antiquated before many of CARRIE's staunch defenders were even born.

This ain't lookin' good.

[ABB2357]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 6:08pm

I'm still holding out hope for Barbara Walsh!

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 6:10pm

Borstal, you only feel that way because you're not in, smack, right on track.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 6:16pm

I remember when even the mention of the word BOOTLEG was enough to get a thread deleted.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 6:54pm

Borstal you do realize the show is set in the early 80s right?

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 7:42pm

I think Borstal is inferring that the show would have to be set pre-West Side Story for that lingo to accurately reflect 'hip' teenagers....

[wonderwaiter]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 7:44pm

23 skiddoo!

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 8:50pm

I remember when even the mention of the word BOOTLEG was enough to get a thread deleted.

Me too! Now BWW TV links to bootlegs!

Remmeber when even mentioning YouTube was a no-no?

[romgitsean]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 9:31pm

I think we're all forgetting something about this last reading. While yes, it was important to have stars there, it was really about testing this new material than it was characterization. Nobody was perfect in the reading...but I thought there were some good moments. I feel as if in a full production, Marin could really sing the sh!t out of Margaret White. Or actually, does Laura Linney sing? Even though she's in TSS and has much better things to do than Carrie Off-Broadway, I could see her being stunning.

Anyway, the point to me is this: is Carrie: The Musical perfect? Will it ever truly work in a realistic sense? Probably not. Why? I've said it once, I've said it again: it wasn't meant to be musicalized. But for the moments that are there, they are incredible. They're taking all the right precautions: they're re-working it and re-working it, and opening Off-Broadway. That's what I said they should do from the start. The risk is minimal if they start there.

Until something leaks, who knows what happened in this new version? I really do wish the best for Carrie, because honestly, I think it's great that we're really starting to go into some real higher risk productions now in a recession (Scottsboro Boys and Bloody Bloody had the potential to sink or swim...many were worried that Bloody Bloody would sink because it just didn't seem like 'Broadway material'), and it's important that we are revisiting some of this old material...even if it needs some fine tweaking.

The best to Carrie. I plan to be there opening night, sink or swim.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:03pm

I think Marin would be brilliant as Margaret White. She can totally pull it off. She has the voice and the acting chops.

I'd still love to see Bernadette Peters get her Piper Laurie-esque mane all teased out and made up like a twisted cupie doll and channel her inner eerie mother.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/9/10 at 10:17pm

You guys are really going to have to let go of this idea of a perfect production of Carrie.