She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!! - Page 2
She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!!
#25Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 12:04pmLook forward to hearing everyones reports tonight
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#26Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 12:09pmUpdated On: 2/19/18 at 12:09 PM
#27Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 12:14pmI wish the show and cast well too with the run.
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
#28Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 12:19pmIll be there tonight! Can't wait!
Visceral_Fella
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/18/12
#29Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 1:13pmI'll be there tonight as well! SO EXCITED!
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#30Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 1:33pmCome visit us at A DOLL'S LIFE down the block this weekend! We're just a block further. Do two flops in a day! :) /end shameless plug (don't hate me!) :)
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#31Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 1:35pmUpdated On: 2/19/18 at 01:35 PM
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#32Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 2:02pm
Sadly, no! We close on Sunday. It was a limited engagement. Next year is HENRY SWEET HENRY though! So, plan ahead for January/February!
Back to CARRIE.... :)
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
bobbybaby85
Featured Actor Joined: 8/3/11
#33Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 2:48pm
Carrie Merch...
Updated On: 2/19/18 at 02:48 PM
#34Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 2:52pmI can't get over how much the logo looks like the Cats logo. Maybe it's just me.
#35Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 3:10pmI like the logo as in the writing far better without the pic of Molly on
Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna
#36Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 3:17pm
I still think they should have added a red period 
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"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#37Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 3:22pm
Agreed!
I am in Row C on the isle if anyone wants to say Hi ;o)
Carrie 2012!
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#38Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 3:25pm
I really hope this does well and makes Molly the star she deserves to be 
#39Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 8:20pm
Intermission report,
Show has really taken shape! The space is a little limiting, but Stafford has done some amazing things with the show.
The band is overpowering the cast at times. The new orchestrations are very contemporary rock! Some good, but weird sounding on the Carrie /Mother songs.
The cast is good and I am sure they will grow as the show progresses. I don't want to get 2 in depth with them yet, but I will say they are working really hard!
Great use of the space. Set is 8 chairs and a table but used very effectively! Special effects are good so far for the space.
Overall the show is in good shape. With some fine tuning it will only get better. I expect this to transfer ... Unless act 2 is a hot mess!
The songs are pretty much the same from the 2009 reading. I will post more after the show.
#40Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 8:25pmOh and the choreography reminds me a lot of Spring Awakening, especially with the chairs.
#41Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 8:34pm
More about the special effects, please please please. Anything during the title song in the first act?
That was one of the major mistakes in the original production -- a story with a telekinetic central character kind of needs special effects... no?
Updated On: 1/31/12 at 08:34 PM
#42Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:08pm
just ordered tickets for Sunday night!
It is ridiculous to set a detective story in New York City. New York City is itself a detective story...
AGATHA CHRISTIE, Life magazine, May 14, 1956
#43Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:12pm
How can we expect special effects in this tiny off-broadway low-budget production?
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 1/31/12 at 09:12 PM
#44Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:14pm^ Hmm. You don't think you can fly crap around a small stage for little money? Black wires aren't that expensive, really.
#45Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:16pmI know that the first reading of the "revamp" called for a levitating bed and a murderous lightning bolt. I wonder if they've found simple ways to stage those, or if they've been replaced altogether.
#46Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:18pm
Ummmm there was NO BLOOD!!! There was no bucket of blud dumped on her? They just hit her with a red light!!! REALLY??? No blood! That killed what was otherwise a pretty good 2nd act.
The destruction is done with lights, sound and projection. it's off broadway so I can understand the limitations.
They had me up until the destruction. From then on needs some serious re-tooling!
More to come later
#47Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:21pmI can't wait to hear the full first preview report! Going on Sunday, February 12th!
"It does what a musical is supposed to do; it takes you to another world. And it gives you a little tune to carry in your head. Something to take you away from the dreary horrors of the real world. A little something for when you're feeling blue. You know?"
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#48Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:24pm
Ummmm there was NO BLOOD!!! There was no bucket of blud dumped on her? They just hit her with a red light!!! REALLY??? No blood! That killed what was otherwise a pretty good 2nd act.
What?! No bucket of blood = No Carrie.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
#49Less than a week until CARRIE comes back to NYC
Posted: 1/31/12 at 9:28pm
I'd have to agree, that, on principle, this is a huge misstep. Almost never would I jump on a creative choice when I haven't seen the show, but the pitiful trickling of blood in the original production was one of the biggest criticisms--and that's SAYING something! I understand that it's a technical challenge, but you can bet your ass that every paying customer is looking forward to seeing how that scene will be pulled off. Hitting her with a red light is one incredibly lazy idea. So, she doesn't have blood on her when she's wrecking the prom? She doesn't have blood on her when she comes home to Margaret? It's the most powerful image in both the novel and the film.
I hope the rest of the technical challenges were met with a little more creativity...
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