To Those Who Saw Carrie On Broadway...

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 8:21pm

In today's interview with Betty Buckley on Playbill.com, she compares Carrie to Rocky Horror and goes so far that audience members started to dress up like characters from the show and even began shouting things to the actors on stage.

Did this actually happen? I feel like it didn't.

[DAME]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 8:31pm

The performance I saw was the night before it closed and I saw none of that.

[Roscoe]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 8:34pm

Uh, no, that didn't happen when I saw it, and nobody has ever, to my knowledge, mentioned anything like that happening. The poor lady is trying to turn an unmitigated disaster into a camp classic.

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 9:05pm

I saw the musical a week before opening and I also can attest that NO ONE in the audience was dressed in costume nor was any one in the audience shouting things to the actors on stage.

In the 22 years since the show closed, as others mentioned, Betty's claims have NEVER been hinted at nor mentioned anywhere -- not even in Ken Mandelbaum's book NOT SINCE CARRIE.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 9:12pm

No, Betty. That happened when you did Sunset Boulevard.

[darquegk]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 9:14pm

I read a book once in which this happened with a high school's yearly production of Hamlet. Every year, they did Hamlet, so audience members started dressing up, doing callbacks, etc.

I don't remember what book though.

[castlestreet]

Posted: 10/10/10 at 9:45pm

Miz Buckley needs to get a grip-the gap between what used to be a brilliant talent, and what has sadly become a never ending parade of odd claims like this and even stranger facebook and twitter comments is startling. Her sometimes strange ways used to go unchecked when she was on a run of great stage work and sold out concerts, but the last few times I have seen her she was anything but in top form and the audience kind of let her know it. Her mainstream gigs have seriously declined in recent years, while people her age like LuPone and Peters continue to get mainstream work.

This is coming from a huge Buckley fan too- the woman's voice is among the most listened to on my iPod.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 12:40am

Blah. I figured. Oh, crazy Broadway women...

I think, in her honor, we should hold a showing (pr playing rather) if the closing night soundboard and come in costume and begin to shout random things at it. For her sake...

Carrie: "Something happened at school today, momma. Something terrible"
Audience: "Yeah, your who haw was bleeding!!!"

or

Sue: "You know, your my best friend, but sometimes I just don't understand you."
Audience: "And we don't understand why you sound like you're in special ed!!!"

I can just imagine people coming in Linzi's hideous costumes. Or that special dress that Sally Ann wore to the Prom....

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 7:57am

Having been at several of Buckley's concerts, I would like to respectfully disagree. Even when she was dog tired, she still came off very well.

She's always been nuts, and I don't think it's that people are tolerating it less, they're just being made more aware. I've read posts from people who've met her saying how she is bat****, but it wasn't really until the internet era that it became more and more apparent.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 8:36am

It must be hard for her to see Alice Ripley come along and have so many fans and win awards for being nuts.

It raises the nutsy-diva bar way high.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 10:05am

If people celebrate LuPone for harassing or haranguing virtually every human being that crosses her path I don't see what the big deal is about Buckley misremembering Carrie's audiences.

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Updated On: 10/11/10 at 10:05 AM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 10:45am

I think Betty loses points with people is because she is both crazy and difficult to work with. Alice is indeed crazy (or at least very committed to playing crazy for her fans) but by all accounts I've heard not particularly difficult backstage. Patti, as many know, is difficult backstage, but doesn't really hit the crazy level, just has the bitchiness quotient.

[TimesSquared]

Posted: 10/11/10 at 2:52pm

To Those Who "Saw Carrie On Broadway"...

...yeah, all nine million of them