The run closed May 15, 1988
- Opened
- May 12, 1988
- Closed
- May 15, 1988
- Performances
- 5
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- August Wilson Theatre
Of the 465 productions we hold that opened in the 1980s and record a performance count, this is the 399th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Other stagings of Carrie 2 more that season
| 1992 | Transfer Transfer | |
| 2015 | Transfer Transfer |
Who was in it26 named
Gary Co Burn
Catherine Coffey
Kevin Coyne
Charlotte D Amboise
David Danns
Matthew Dickens
Michele du Verney
Eric Gilliom
Paul Gyngell
Michelle Hodgson
Rosemarie Jackson
Kenny Linden
Madeleine Loftin
Michelle Nelson
Gene Anthony Ray
Mark Santoro
Christopher Solari
Suzanne Maria Thomas
Sally Ann Triplett
7 of these 26 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 19 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Characters8 roles recorded
Linzi Hateley Carrie White
Barbara Cook Margaret White
Sally Ann Triplett Sue Snell
Paul Gyngell Tommy Ross
Charlotte d'Amboise Chris Hargensen
Gene Anthony Ray Billy Nolan
Darlene Love Miss Gardner
Philip Hoffman Mr. Stephens
Only 512 of 13,459 productions carry role names, and these came out of a wiki table — the names arrived with the table's own cell markup on them and have been stripped back. They are not linked to person records because the identifiers in that table do not resolve to ours.
Creative team
- Director
- Terry Hands
- Choreographer
- Debbie Allen
- Orchestrations
- Anders Eljas
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
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.
Speaker not recorded. 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. 60- A musical version of the macabre Stephen King novel, Carrie, which closed on its opening night, but inspired a small, devoted cult. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 220
- 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. Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 617
- 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”). Enchanted Evenings the Broadway Musical From Show Boat Block Geoffrey Oxford New, p. 665
- 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… Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 668
- References include Ken Mandelbaum’s book Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. The Stephen Sondheim Encyclopedia Rick Pender Rowman Littlefield Publishing Lanh, p. 103
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No recording is held for Carrie at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.