New "Carrie" Pix from Seattle

[Owen22]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 9:14pm

Okay. Are these the campiest photos EVER?

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Photo-Flash-First-Look-at-Alice-Ripley-as-Margaret-White-in-BalaganSTGs-CARRIE-20130927

I don't know which yet, but one of them is my phone's new wallpaper!!

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 9:48pm

And one is my new profile pic! Campy indeed

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:24pm

Why is Margaret dressed in a short pink nighty??? I know Ripley will nail this part, but the costumer/director should be shot.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:36pm

Who wouldn't want to see Alice Ripley in a short pink nighty?

[ljay889]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:39pm

Well it's kind of the antithesis of Margaret White....

[E.Davis]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 10:50pm

Exactly.....Where is this productions focus.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/27/13 at 11:50pm

Not faulting Alice because this is a part she was born to play, but those production stills are awful-not artful in the slightest. Were they taken with a Nikon Coolpix? Just tragic.

[best12bars]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 12:36am

Horrible. Why is Carrie hugging her mother's bare legs?

Good god.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 12:44am

How many more examples are people going to need before they finally admit what I've been saying all along: Carrie will never ever work as a musical. Ever!

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 4:43am

It worked better in 1988 than it does now.

[RippedMan]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 11:27am

What is her career? Shouldn't she be doing higher-profile projects?

[CJ N2N]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 11:33am

Those look frighteningly similar to her selfies she posts on twitter...

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 11:45am

"It worked better in 1988 than it does now."

Which is not to say it ultimately worked.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 10:51pm

I've always felt like it was awfully close to being a very good show, and even though a lot of the numbers were totally daffy at the very least it was not only conceptually solid but well put-together. Of course, the people who wrote the revival went and sucked all the fun out of it and now it's a Very Serious Show with a lot of poorly-written teen dialogue and somehow even clumsier attempts at characterization. Frankly, I think if the backers hadn't panicked and fled, the original production would've had a really decent run.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 11:42pm

Since when do promotional pictures have anything to do with what will be seen on stage? We don't know that Alice will be wearing that costume on stage and we don't know if the campiness in the photos is a reflection of how the director will stage the show.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 9/28/13 at 11:48pm

That possibility makes the photos even worse then, no?

[DEClarke]

Posted: 9/29/13 at 12:24am

I was excited to see this, but this photos actually make me glad I'm not traveling from Houston to Seattle for this production.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 9/29/13 at 1:44am

"Since when do promotional pictures have anything to do with what will be seen on stage?"

Um...thats kind of their job. They promote the show.

[someone.else's.story2]

Posted: 9/29/13 at 11:18pm

'What is her career? Shouldn't she be doing higher-profile projects?'

Louis Hobson is the Artistic Director of this theater (sorry, I forget it's name) in Seattle so she probably wanted to work with her friend. Plus, judging from their website, it looks like they regularly work with similarly great people (perhaps due to his pedigree...who know).

Also, Alice Ripley is so prefect for this role. And, I've seen plenty of name actors do smaller theater when it's a really appealing project. It happens here in LA all the time.

I think it's great that she's doing the show. I'm sure she will kill it!

[choitoy]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 2:28am

The cheesiness of the pictures don't bother me so much. What does bother me is that Alice has the same facial expression in every picture of her...

And the Balagan Theatre is trying to make more of a name for itself. It also brought us our favorite Seattle narcoleptic Jewish Drag Queen (and Drag Race Winner) Jinkx Monsoon (and her male alter ego, Jerrick Hoffer).

I'm still excited to see it (I plan on seeing it twice). And I also found out that Jerrick Hoffer will be reprising his Hedwig in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" for a week in December. It makes me wonder if he's going to try to be Neil Patrick Harris' understudy/standby for the Broadway production.

[nasty_khakis]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 10:09am

Jerrick/Jinkx has already said he'd love to replace/standby/whatever NPH. He would be a terrific replacement, even to only keep the production open a few more weeks.

[Rainbowhigh23]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 2:40pm

I hope someone on Tumblr posts an audio of one of the songs.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 2:48pm

They should have gone all out and had the actors get Glamour Shots

[iWannaBEaSedaris]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 7:46pm

What ever happened to this one?
http://www.carrieinla.com/
It was supposed to be open by now... did they just run out of money?

[Littleshopofcarrie]

Posted: 9/30/13 at 8:09pm

^ I was wondering the same thing. They keep posting photos on instagram as if it's still going to happen... Anyone know anything?