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| Jordan |
Carrie... I'm confused!Soo, my online DVD rental people sent me Carrie and one of the DVD extras is a bit called 'Singing Carrie'.Lawrence D. Cohen and Betty Buckley are interviewed. Cohen makes reference (not by name) to Trevor Nunn directing and says that he was an English director who had no idea about American schools and Proms. It then cuts to the Betty Buckley interview where she states "For the couple of weeks that we were there, it was the hottest ticket on Broadway. The theatre was packed to the gulls." She then goes on to say about the first preview "I stabbed Carrie, she stopped my heart and so I died, she crawled to the front of the stage and died. Then the audience started booing.... blah blah... Linzi Hately stopped the show with her first number, I stopped the show with my first number... but there were these boos and Linzi looked at me... So we stood up and the lights came up and the boos changed to cheers, in a moment we had a full house standing ovation. Cuts back to Cohen who waffles for a bit then says "The show needed money to support it. We had a handful of rave reviews.... What's nice is that I still get three or four offers per week to produce the show..." Now, there was a book releaed called "Not Since Carrie" which was about thatre disasters. Yet Cohen and Buckley seem of the opinion the show was a fantastic hit but lacked investment... 
P.S. I never realised the gym teacher in the film was Betty Buckley 
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| Quique |
I think Carrie is a fantastic show...um, awfully fantastic, if that makes sense. Maybe that's what they meant?
I have that DVD and have seen the speacial features as well. I wish the show would be produced once again in its original form. I would definitely go see it, lol. |
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| Dvarg |
Re: Carrie... I'm confused!
I've always been under the impression it was a fantastic hit because it was so jawdroppingly awful, and that it was a terrible embarassment to everyone involved - which is why it closed. I think they'd earn a lot of money releasing an OBC recording, but it seems to horrible to anyone related to the production. I think also a revival is a good idea, if they could figure out a way to direct it. It obviously don't work as a serious musical the way it was intended, but it also often doesn't work when someone tries to deliberately recreate insane camp. |
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| The Very Angry Woman |
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