She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!! - Page 29

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 10:03am

You have a great point ... but only if Andrea McArdle returns as "Annie."

[newintown]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 10:38am

And Patty McCormick reprises her role in The Bad Seed.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 6:43pm

It's certainly no more ridiculous than the prospect of Barbra Streisand starring in a Gypsy remake.

Any word on changes that might have happened in the show this week?

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 6:46pm

newintown---LOL

[Overthewall]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 11:44pm

Betty Buckley was there tonight.

She seemed to really enjoy it!

I enjoyed it - I really miss "And Eve Was Weak" in the original key. And the song still felt rushed.

[binau]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 11:47pm

But have there been any changes?

[Overthewall]

Posted: 2/10/12 at 11:51pm

Sorry - it's the first time I've seen it - so the differences I've noticed were from the original '88 Soundboards!

[binau]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:01pm

http://www.broadway.com/shows/carrie/video/153896/show-people-marin-mazzie-of-carrie/

In this interview Marin says they are making changes "every day", and that they "just restaged Eve was Weak again".

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:05pm

They don't need to reblock it- they need to rethink her characterization!

Updated On: 2/11/12 at 06:05 PM

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:32pm

This is the Julie Taymor approach to "fixing" a problem.

We'll change the color of his tie and have him take two steps to the left. That'll do the trick!!!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:37pm

Great interview with her and it's great to hear her talking about grounding Margaret as a real person.

[Idiot]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:57pm

...a real person whose daughter can wipe out a town with her mind.

[binau]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 7:04pm

It was a great interview, she seems so funny/genuine/kind.

She mentions how Magaret is a person who 'goes out' and 'works' (as opposed to sitting at home in a black cape praying). I feel like the dialogue to suggest that (the laundry bit before "Eve Was Weak") is a bit boring though. Is this one of the 'spots' they could 'fix'?

Updated On: 2/11/12 at 07:04 PM

[tourboi]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 9:06pm

Grounding Margaret as a real person? NO. She's borderline psychotic. She KILLS HER DAUGHTER. She HAS to be scary. She's not.

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 9:27pm

I'm reading the book - Margaret is a violent raving maniac. Perhaps they've chosen to portray her entirely different in the show. For me, she was subdued and unremarkable in this version.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 9:36pm

She mentions how Magaret is a person who 'goes out' and 'works' (as opposed to sitting at home in a black cape praying).

Actually, she's both, but definitely not just one OR the other.

While I'm confident that Marin could play this part any number of ways, I'm sensing she is completely in agreement with the director on this approach, and that's unfortunate (for her own sake). It's not to say that if he didn't try to take it a new direction, she wouldn't "go for it," but this is clearly not a case of "artistic differences" here.

They both are attempting to have Margaret White behave like a normal/real person.

... in a horror story ... with a daughter who burns down a town with her mind.

Updated On: 2/11/12 at 09:36 PM

[My Oh My]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 11:25pm

Uh oh, do I sense this modern "realism" creeping into Carrie, too?

Margaret White to be fleshed-out and made real! Not some dreary, God-fearing lunatic with a cape. No! This production is honest and this director is a GENIUS! Roflmao.

[Leadingplayer]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 11:41pm

I was disappointed as soon as Mazzie's name was announced. She is just to soft a performer for this role. Margaret needs to be unhinged and volatile.

[THDavis]

Posted: 2/11/12 at 11:56pm

If Ripley still had the pipes to tear through this role it would have been magical.

How is almost everyone in the theatre community in agreement that Margaret can't be a "real" person and yet they continue trying the approach. It's not working.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 1:07am

Saw the matinee today and completely agree. Trying to make Margaret a real person just doesn't work.

I think the ONLY way to make Carrie work onstage is to fully embrace its camp qualities, something this production tries desperately not to do.

[Leadingplayer]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 1:59am

Was Ripley considered for it? Has she blown out her voice? She does have the manic acting quality the role needed.

[Leadingplayer]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 2:05am

I found a tape of Maureen McGovern and Annie Golden from the original workshop. Wonder why Maureen never got the role? She has the chops.
Eve was Weak

[tourboi]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 2:32am

Maureen is, and shall probably always be, my favorite Margaret. Even a little above Buckley.

[somethingwicked]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 2:40am

Leadingplayer, according to Bernie Telsey, Marin Mazzie was Stafford Arima's first and only choice for Margaret from the very beginning (he'd worked with her when he Associate Directed the original production of RAGTIME.)

[binau]

Posted: 2/12/12 at 3:29am

She still sounds like the right choice to me. Her "When There's No One" is perfect, her "Boys Could Dance" sounds more intense than Buckley's to me and even though I don't think her "Eve Was Weak" comes close to Buckley's it is by no means tame (cf. Babara Cook). In the interview Mazzie suggests that their 'vision' is of Margaret as a real person you would see walking down a street (and assumably not take a second look).

If Piper Laurie's Margaret walked past you in a street today I think you would turn to your friends and sn*, and it would be uncomfortable being alone in a room with her (e.g the scene in Sue's house) because she is just so strange.

I don't believe that Marin Mazzie is incapable of doing this, but the dialogue is just not there. How can Marin Mazzie convey a sense of craziness if the first spoken words that come out of her mouth suggest that she is just a hard working sex-typed (Laundry) woman?