She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!! - Page 29
She's Back! CARRIE - First preview !!!
New ending #700
Posted: 2/10/12 at 10:03amYou have a great point ... but only if Andrea McArdle returns as "Annie."
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New ending #702
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?
New ending #703
Posted: 2/10/12 at 6:46pmnewintown---LOL
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New ending #704
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.
New ending #705
Posted: 2/10/12 at 11:47pmBut have there been any changes?
New ending #706
Posted: 2/10/12 at 11:51pmSorry - it's the first time I've seen it - so the differences I've noticed were from the original '88 Soundboards!
New ending #707
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".
New ending #708
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
New ending #709
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!!!
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New ending #710
Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:37pmGreat interview with her and it's great to hear her talking about grounding Margaret as a real person.
New ending #711
Posted: 2/11/12 at 6:57pm...a real person whose daughter can wipe out a town with her mind.
New ending #712
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'?
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New ending #713
Posted: 2/11/12 at 9:06pmGrounding Margaret as a real person? NO. She's borderline psychotic. She KILLS HER DAUGHTER. She HAS to be scary. She's not.
New ending #714
Posted: 2/11/12 at 9:27pmI'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.
New ending #715
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.
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New ending #716
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
New ending #717
Posted: 2/11/12 at 11:41pmI 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.
New ending #718
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.
New ending #719
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.
Broadway Star Joined: 5/12/03
New ending #720
Posted: 2/12/12 at 1:59amWas Ripley considered for it? Has she blown out her voice? She does have the manic acting quality the role needed.
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New ending #721
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
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New ending #722
Posted: 2/12/12 at 2:32amMaureen is, and shall probably always be, my favorite Margaret. Even a little above Buckley.
New ending #723
Posted: 2/12/12 at 2:40amLeadingplayer, 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.)
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
New ending #724
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?
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