What Were They Thinking? The complete journey of Carrie the musical book

I tried to bring back the old thread, but for some reason it won't load.

Anyway, I have recently heard that a couple of these unpublished manuscripts have actually been circulating within the community. I did a little digging on the net and it seems that the book was possible released overseas briefly.

Has anyone here read it or know of anyone who has? I would love to hear what kept this thing from actually being released.

Ditto. Would love to read it.....

Why is anyone's guess. This show in any incarnation is theatrical excrement.

I want to read this too. But its obvious they are going to glorify the off-Broadway production (which was okay) and crucify Terry Hands ("Think Grease!" as "Think Greece!". I wouldn't be surprised if Hands is the reason this wasn't released.

Cohen's book was actually released?! In 2012, it was noted on dozens of websites and the following year it abruptly vanished. Now there are two copies listed for sale on amazon.ca... for $999! And what's up with the other BroadwayWorld thread about it which APPEARS to be there, but when you click it, it's blank? Seriously, what the hell was in that tell-all and who's preventing us from reading it?!

I wish this would have been released. I'm sure someone has a manuscript of it.

BUMP! Whatever happened to this book?

The book was indeed finished, but just like old times, disagreements between the shows writers have prevented it from being released.

I really find it hard to believe the reason this isn't being released is because of disagreements between the writers, or the writers and Terry Hands, etc. There are TONS of 'behind the scenes' theatre books that are incredibly gossipy (Glen Berger's hilarious and horrifying account of Spider Man Turn off the Dark being just one that comes to mind). You don't need to have 'permission' from those who are 'guilty ' to write a memoir and that's what this was announced as.

I still think the more likely scenario is that Applause bought this on a pitch and then the book was never actually written so the release was scrapped.

Updated On: 4/6/17 at 11:55 AM

Is there any chance we're ever going to see this?

It was written. It's 208 pages. Here's the description .

What were they thinking?