Carrie
Shows · Carrie
Shy, sheltered teenager Carrie White is tormented by cruel classmates and her fanatically religious mother Margaret. When a sympathetic girl arranges for Carrie to attend the prom with her boyfriend, it seems like a turning point — until a vicious prank triggers Carrie's terrifying telekinetic powers, unleashing devastating destruction on everyone at the dance.
- Opened
- 1988
- Performances
- 5
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Megamusical
Productions3 on Broadway
| 1988 | Virginia Theatre Original. May 12, 1988 · Terry Hands | 5 performances |
| 1992 | Transfer Theatre unknown. | |
| 2015 | Transfer Theatre unknown. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 8 albums held
Licensing not confirmed
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37 passages naming Carrie, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
A musical version of the macabre Stephen King novel, Carrie, which closed on its opening night, but inspired a small, devoted cult. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p220
The latter served Kern as the “Incidental Music, played on the Stage during the presentation of ‘The Parson’s Bride’” in act I, scene 6. book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p617
When in act II Carrie imitates one of the “hussies with nothin’ on their legs but tights” that she saw in New York, her music also clearly echoes the music associated with Julie’s name (“You’re a queer one, Julie Jordan”) that Carrie introduced early in act I (“I’m a Tomboy, jest a Tomboy”). book:enchanted-evenings-the-broadway-musical-from-show-boat-block-geoffrey-oxford-new#p665
Mackintosh model, however, has not proved easy to follow. Others who have pursued similar approaches in musicals have generally failed to recoup the staggering costs of their Broadway investments-the case, for example, with Chess ($6 million), Carrie (1988, $8 million), and even such Lloyd \\/ebber shows as Starlight E… book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p668
References include Ken Mandelbaum’s book Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p103
In 2012 Mazzie recreated Carrie’s religiously fanatical mother Margaret in an off-Broadway revival. book:the-stephen-sondheim-encyclopedia-rick-pender-rowman-littlefield-publishing-lanh#p468
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