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"Taking more risks" is what I mean by "dangerous," too.

Not danger as in either "more threatening" or potentially harmful to anyone.

Whether Carrie walks out into the audience after the prom or not doesn't really matter. It was a suggestion, and I agree it might be weird or too much. It also might be very effective. The point I was trying to make is to be "risky" and "dangerous" with staging and/or acting choices. and do the unexpected. Make the audience uncomfortable right then. There are other ways you could achieve it without having her break the 4th wall. The second point of having her do something at that moment was that I don't think the big event of Carrie going on her rampage and destroying the town should be so minimized. It happens far too quickly (with just two lines of narration). It's all but edited out.

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I can never be quite sure when you are being serious, Namo, but I do have to say that all of Best12's comments and suggestions on this thread are more exciting than the live performance that I saw.

"I interpreted Betty's "dangerous'" comment to mean what we've proverbially referred to in this thread as being "less safe" with the material-- taking more theatrical risks, etc."

This.

"That's what she means when she talks about the 1988 production and she's right- if this PG-13, unexciting but respectable version of the show has opened on broadway in 1988 there is no way the musical would be nearly as legendary and talked about as it still is 25 years later."

And this.

Updated On: 2/13/12 at 11:19 PM

Mrs White is an iconic Gothic villain and as such, her function is to exist in our world but not to belong in it. Think Frankenstein's monster or Count Dracula.

To mould her into a misguided mom may seem more tempting- "oh, we've made her more real", but that is like trying to remove the superpowers from Clarke Kent: it makes the character less interesting, even redundant.

There are some characters with whom we should not be able to identify- Patrick Bateman springs to mind. The original Mrs White, as Stephen King knew, was a monster in human form. Call it supernatural or psychological, but she should have an ineffable madness.

I emailed Stafford Arima with some suggestions based on what I've read in the thread and got a Thank You email back.

So I guess instead of complaining here all the time, You could do something about it :)

I saw this on Sunday afternoon as well. I liked it, but I definitely will agree with some of the comments here.

I am a little confused to who the target audience for this show is. That right there could be a problem. But, I could be wrong. I was mostly interested in it because I know the original was a massive flop and I would have been way too young to see it.

For me, I've actually found Marin Mazzie to be a hit or miss. I think for this, she would be a miss, for me. Her character seemed kind of boring, so I'm not sure if it was her acting choices or she was told to play Margaret that way. But, I saw her in Spamalot a few years ago, and was bored by her performance there. She just did not add anything special to make the role hers. But, she was great in Next to Normal.

I don't remember much about the movie, so I might not know what I'm talking about here.

I'm not sure what to think about Carrie, herself. I guess I need to see the movie again to see how she really was. But, she seemed more happy than I would have expected. Is this an off expectation?

I also had problems after Carrie revealed herself to her mother at the end of Act 1. That should have been a huge climax, but I felt like it happened and then up until the prom, there was nothing. I'm thinking just her mom begging her not to go was not enough. Again, if I'm wrong here, let me know.

I guess the other characters were pretty one dimensional as well. They should expand on the characterization and explain more.

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a-mad, the show was completely sold out when I went on Saturday night (February 11).

Trying to take my friend for his birthday. When they mean under 30, do the mean 18-30 or any age under 30?

I have spoke to Mr Arima many times during the putting together of Carrie and he's made it very clear that he's avoiding message boards and fan opinions as he wants to focus on the show they are creating. I totally understand where he is coming from, the Carrie fans are very opinionated but all have very separate opinions, it would be impossible to create a Carrie that everyone is happy with.

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Ok, I never noticed this before but are they now selling $150 premium Mezzanine tickets too? lol. I thought it was only orchestra seats.

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Spider-Man is definitely in the running, although it continues to sell tickets. Even if in the end it's considered a "flop," it won't be on the scale of Carrie. It's already had a longer run that 5 (or whatever) performances.

The reason Carrie is considered such a big flop has to do with several things: the amount of money they spent on it, the "crazy" way they approached the material, the familiarity of the source material, which perhaps, above all else, is the reason it's remembered today. If a gigantic musical had flopped and it was a subject matter that few people had heard of, people wouldn't be talking about it on such a scale today.

So subject matter, colossal budget, creative and financial failure.

Spider-Man might be next in the history books.

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Of my personal friends who've seen this off broadway version, none of them who liked it has ever read the book or seen the original film. I wonder what they'd think of the show if they had?

Oh, I know this is all a matter of opinion, and I respect that, but I do have a hard time accepting this new persona of Margaret as being at all true to the character who was created by Stephen King.

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