Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Film / Theater Carrie Musical in the Works?
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM
According to Variety, Jeffrey Seller (the Broadway producer behind the new West Side Story and In the Heights) is organizing a reading of the script, and "'composer Michael Gore, lyricist Dean Pitchford and book writer Lawrence D. Cohen' are revisiting and reworking their script." While there are still no details on when and where the reading will be (and whether it will be open to the public), it's never too soon for a round of fantasy casting. I propose Kirsten Dunst in the lead and Carrie Fisher as her mother.
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Not to quibble, but Carrie isn't a short story, it is King's first novel. And Carrie, the movie adaptation, wasn't a "flop"—either commercially (it grossed $33 million stateside) or critically. Although Sisters was a cult hit, Carrie was the movie that really launched De Palma.
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Wow, what a sloppy article...not only was De Palma's film an enormous success beyond expectations, this is not a new version of "Carrie" as a musical. It's a reading for a possible revival of the original infamous/cult musical from the 80s with some possible revisions.
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