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Carrie: The Musical

Carrie

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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
Music: Michael GoreLyrics: Dean PitchfordBook: Lawrence D. Cohen

Productions3 on Broadway

1988 Virginia Theatre Original. May 12, 1988 · Terry Hands 5 performances
1992 Transfer Theatre not recorded.
2015 Transfer Theatre not recorded.

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

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In the literature37 passages

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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