Revised CARRIE on Broadway?

I recently saw a production of the 2012 revision of Carrie and have fallen in love with a show that previously I was not at all familiar with. The score is absolutely gorgeous and I would love to see this live on in New York. Is there any plausibility to mounting the show on Broadway? The revisions brought new life into a musical that was borderline awful in it's original form (based on a bootleg of the Stratford production from '8, but now is a masterpiece, IMO. Who could play the roles? I can see Krysta Rodriguez as Carrie.

The MCC production was obviously being groomed for a commercial run, whether Broadway or Off-Broadway is hard to say.

Those hopes were dead in the water though once the reviews came out. They were mixed to negative. The show, which extended before opening, discounted and papered the hell out of those final weeks. Word of mouth was not good. I'm sure a person with more time on their hands could dig out some choice comments from the forum archive.

I saw the production and found it to be a monotonous, pointless bore.

I read the script last year when a local theater here in Michigan was looking to do a reading for it, the book is absolutely dreadful. It takes place (kind of??) in the modern day and it's just terrible. I was kind of sad said theater didn't do it, because the lady that would have played the mother is so talented (and varied; she's an opera singer and she just played Nellie in South Pacific at the Encore theater in Dexter MI).

But this Carrie should not be seen on Broadway.

The score was heard on Broadway in 1988 and there isn't enough different material to warrant a possible Tony nomination. And to call the score a "star" is an overstatement; there are a few good songs and a bunch of mediocre ones (When There's No One, And Eve Was Weak, and I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance being the only good songs I can think of offhand).

ETA: I also kind of like the song Unsuspecting Hearts (mostly because of Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner).

Updated On: 7/13/15 at 11:37 PM

What Production did you see GingerBreadMan?

"The recent production near LA got amazing reviews. Wasn't there a rumor that it would do some kind of mini tour?"

A tour was a rumor, along with a possible sit-down production. The latter looks to be true with an October 1st start scheduled at the historic Los Angeles Theatre in downtown LA. Much, if not all, of the La Mirada, CA cast are supposed to reprise their roles - and the same "immersive" format will be used.

Whatever the issues of previous productions, this one worked!

^exactly.

The brilliant Los Angeles staging is coming back this fall for an open ended sit-down run downtown. The recent fringe production in the UK at the Southwark Playhouse also got nice reviews and is rumoured to be potentially resurfacing for a limited West End run, so anything seems possible.

All I know of CARRIE are the pages a friend secretly faxed to me while he was working at Theatre Now on casting the original production.

Do the other girls still sing...

"PLUG IT UP!
PLUG IT UP!
PLUG IT UP!"

...when Carrie gets her first period in the shower after P.E. class?

'Cause there are some things that just don't need to be said out loud, much less set to music.

The fact that it was intentionally campy worked AGAINST the original production and that's why the show closed so quickly, it was never meant to be campy and even playing it up goes against it's source material. I know the show has a huge cult following and there are some good songs in the score but it's a show that has proven that not everything lends itself so easily to a musical treatment.

This show keeps on getting re-visited as if it needs to be "saved", what it needs to be is shelved. No one, not even the original team that put together the original production was able to save this turkey. It's like trying to resuscitate a corpse...pointless. It's dead. Leave it be already.

I saw the ill conceived revisal over at the Lucille Lortel a couple of years ago against my better judgement and I hated it even more and I agree with Vespertine 1228 it was a monotonous, pointless bore.

Updated On: 7/14/15 at 08:44 AM

Honestly, I think the revised version base renamed "six eggs" to "half a dozen". They fixed some book and score problems only to create new ones and the new score really lacks the energy and vibrancy of the original.

Given that some of the score is actually really good (the new In, Those Boys, Eve Was Weak, When There's No One, Carrie come to mind), I do somewhat disagree that the story is one that simply cannot be musicalised. I feel the problem is just that the writing is often poor at times.

I'm really thankful for the recent recording and Marin Mazzie's performance in particular. I personally feel the time has come and gone, and it's time for the show to be left behind in regional/community theatre.

Oh, I guess three terrible movie adaptations. Never heard of the made for television movie. Yes, the original is pretty awful because it turns sharp social satire into cheesy 1970's horror with pretty embarrassing performances to boot.