This month, there's going to be a private reading of Carrie, which is crazy. The show, a musical adaptation of the Stephen King story, has become infamous as the flop to end all flops. So why bring it back?
I think it's good not to write off a show as being a total disaster so long as there's a compelling story at its core, and the success of the novel and movie alone indicates that's the case with Carrie. The writers have apparently been doing a lot of work on it--not easy to do even when the show in question hasn't been publicly ridiculed for twenty years--and hopefully their changes will enhance the show's effective moments. I'm not sure it'll go anywhere, but I'm glad it's given a chance at all. If nothing else, revisiting Carrie encourages writers not to give up on a story they want to tell. No matter how big a flop the original show may be.
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Carrie is one of the only shows that continues to fascinate me to this day. I'm dying to know what the writers do with the awful high school material (especially "Out for Blood," which should have never made it to any stage). The Margaret-Carrie scenes are pretty amazing, although I don't really see Marin in that part.
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