Shows · Carrie
Carrie
Opened 1988
5 performances
Musical, Megamusical
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.
- Music
- Michael Gore
- Lyrics
- Dean Pitchford
- Book
- Lawrence D. Cohen
Productions3 productions: 1 on Broadway, 2 in the West End
Recordings 8 recordings
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…
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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.