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Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops by Ken Mandelbaum

Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum ebook
ISBN: 9780312082734
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Format: pdf
Page: 384

Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Now, Carrie librettist Laurence D. May 6, 2013 - Another book I was thrilled to come across in my used book store's Performing Arts section was Ken Mandelbaum's Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. After the Oscar-nominated movie made stars of King, director Brian DePalma and Spacek, “Carrie” became a historic Broadway musical flop in the '80s (with Buckley, a Broadway diva, as Carrie's twisted mother); and later a TV movie; an off-Broadway musical revival; and, last fall, . Apr 5, 2011 - For that, you can't beat Ken Mandelbaum's Not Since 'Carrie':40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. Jan 23, 2012 - The failure is so famous that it's used in the title of a book: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Musical Flops. In 2006, Theatre Couture launched Carrie: A Period Piece off-Broadway. (Time & Life The Civil War, 1999, was a musical revue without a plot that covered the span of the war by way of Top 40-style pop songs infused with rock, country and R&B. Sep 21, 2012 - In 1992 theatre journalist Ken Mandelbaum's book “Not Since Carrie” profiled the legendary 1988 flop musical and 40 years of other troubled Broadway shows. Mar 27, 2014 - The story of “Carrie,” itself a dark twist on the Cinderella myth, has endured for 40 years, since Stephen King published it as his first novel. Stephen King's Carrie was a best-selling novel and a popular 1976 film, but it did not, however, make for an equally successful Broadway musical in 1988. Mar 22, 2013 - Years before Julie Taymor and Bono infamously brought Spider-Man to Broadway, producer-director Harold Prince, songwriters Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, and writers Robert Benton and David Newman saw the potential in bringing It's been often repeated that Batman killed this Superman, that this comparatively “straight” musical was no match for the campy TV comedy (which employed numerous Broadway mainstays, from Ethel Merman to Eli Wallach). Despite a It has since entered the repertory of opera companies, standing as one of the great achievements of American theater. Mar 13, 2011 - Currently Reading: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years Of Broadway Musical Flops, Ken Mandelbaum.