Shows · Carrie · Virginia Theatre, 1988
Carrie, 1988
Of the productions that opened in the 1980s, this had the 398th longest run.
Other stagings of Carrie 2 more
Who was in it28 named
Gary Co Burn
Catherine Coffey
Kevin Coyne
David Danns
Matthew Dickens
Michele du Verney
Eric Gilliom
Michelle Hodgson
Rosemarie Jackson
Kenny Linden
Madeleine Loftin
Michelle Nelson
Gene Anthony Ray as Billy Nolan
Mark Santoro
Christopher Solari
Suzanne Maria Thomas
Barbara Cook as Margaret White
Philip Hoffman as Mr. Stephens
Creative team
- Director
- Terry Hands
- Choreographer
- Debbie Allen
- Orchestrations
- Anders Eljas
Recordings 2 released while this run was on
6 more exist for other runs of this show: see Carrie for all of them.
Around this production
Carrie (also known as Carrie: The Musical) is a musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore. It is based on Stephen King's novel, and integrates elements from the 1976 film. The musical focuses on Carrie White, an awkward teenage girl with telekinetic powers, whose lonely life is dominated by her oppressive religious fanatic mother, Margaret. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the high school prom, she unleashes chaos on everyone and everything in her path out of vengeance. Co-produced with the Royal Shakespeare Company, with direction by Terry Hands and choreography by Debbie Allen, the original production of Carrie premiered on Bro…
“How was it?,” they are asked, after witnessing a tryout or preview performance of an especially unbelievable musical evening. “Not since Carrie, ” their reply will begin. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 357
Mandelbaum, Ken. Not since “Carrie.” New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.
The Sound of Broadway Music A Book of Orchestrators and Steven Suskin Oxford Uni, p. 646it in his memoirs, on opening night in Chicago, Dorothy (Anna Laughlin) had to give so many encores of “Carrie Barry (will you be mine?)” that when she finally got around to letting Stone down in the following book scene, his limbs had gone to sleep and he flopped helplessly about the stage.
As Stone. Anything Goes A History of American Musical Theatre Ethan Mordden, p. 60Something wrong here? Correct a field or report the problem. Every change is recorded in public under the contributor licence.