Well, that’s too bad because you’re gonna get it!
The most infamous musical flop in the history of the Great White Way, Carrie, is being revived!
The show only ran for five performances in 1988 but set a new standard for Broadway campiness and lost $8 million!!!
Jeffrey Seller and Kevin McCollum, whose credits include Rent, Avenue Q and West Side Story, are the producers behind bringing the horror to the stage. And, next month, they will be putting on a six-figure workshop of the musical based on the Stephen King novel about a teenage girl with telekinetic powers.
Hopefully, they won’t be making the same mistakes as the first production. The sets (a high school gym that resembled a Greek temple) and costumes (teenagers in white togas) better go! Not to mention, no one needs a musical number with boys dressed in leather slaughtering pigs!!!
According to the original director, Terry Hands, he was convinced that Carrie should be played as a Greek tragedy.
“I made some mistakes with the show,” said Hands. “I thought it was a Greek tragedy. I was wrong. It was a Roman tragedy.”
Yeah, that was it! Problem solved!
Would U dare to see Carrie?!