THE RESTORATION: "Carrie" (The Musical; Full Show; Stratford, Feb 1988)

[@darthneon0701]

On one audio of the infamous Broadway production, you can hear a random audience member shout, "Oh, it's the pig number!" That audio is underrated!

[@ErikChampney]

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[@robertlobiondo7573]

Ha that was me! I had had an enjoyable intermission.

[@KT-sq2ml]

@@robertlobiondo7573😂

[@jonathanbroderick3599]

The orchestrations in this version are incredible! So rich and beautiful, I’d happily just listen to an instrumental score 😂

[@ErikChampney]

Aren’t they stunning? So rapturous and lush. Amazing how pared down it was for Broadway. After listening to this version so much while working on this, it’s hard to go back to the other one lol

[@this_Joe_Smith]

@@ErikChampney yes everything you said, yes

[@giovannirastrelli9821]

The original has a 27 piece orchestra, like Phantom. The revised score has been stripped down to a 7 piece rock band.

[@kinbarkly1165]

The orchestrations for this version are amazing. I wish City Center Encores would do a production of Carrie just so we can hear the original orchestrations again.

[@erinfee5104]

I started watching out of morbid curiosity... And I kind of loved it?? Stunning in both its highs and its lows, there's really never been a musical like her! Thank you so much for sharing this!

[@ErikChampney]

I’m so happy you had a good time! She’s very addictive lol

[@keetard]

It's definitely an amazing avant Garde experience! not out of this world but never the same!

[@alexsheppard-reid7134]

I honestly can’t explain it, but I’ve been so invested in learning as much as I can about for well over a year now, and to click on this and actually be able to see it properly. I’d watched the full bootlegs but I’d never really seen it. I started legitimately sobbing. I didn’t think it would have this effect on me. Thank you very much.

[@ErikChampney]

Then you must join us on Sunday for this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWPOaXVupraYo6c

[@alexsheppard-reid7134]

Thank you so so much!!!! I’m pumped!

[@joe88john]

I know I'm going to sound crazy seeing this, given this show's broadway run, but if it was playing right now in broadway, with this cast, I would go see it in a heart beat! Not a single song annoys me or anything, and a lot of them are fantastic! Linzi does an amazing job as Carrie! Thank you for sharing this on youtube! I was born in 1988, so I wouldn't have been able to go see it, so this is the best chance I have. What a beautifully tragic tale, and what a wonderful play to showcase it. Poor, sweet Carrie.

[@ErikChampney]

Oh then you must watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWPOaXVupraYo6c

[@davidprado545]

i think "in" sunk this show, the staging was too upfront, too balls out. people must have thought "what the hell." also the nudity in "dream on". it must have been a lot to be confronted with! but by the time you give it a chance and get to "do me a favor" and "wotta night" it's sublime! thank you for the awesome restoration work!

[@miltonappleby5642]

Are they really naked? I though they had towels or nude under garments.

[@mccperin]

idk i rlly liked 'in'? it reminds me of heathers the musical in a way (also reminds me of whipped into shape from legally blonde lolol). the foreshadowing in the lyrics contrasted w/ the pop music was rlly smart imo n the choreography is super fun

[@ronb.5636]

@@mccperin hey there! I can't disagree with you! Can we agree Carrie was just too dang ahead of it's time? Peace!

[@mccperin]

@@ronb.5636 yes! imo the score from this ver is still better when it comes 2 the 2012 revival, this still feels fresh whilst the 2012 revival DOES feel like it's from 10 yrs ago

[@keetard]

@@miltonappleby5642 They used Nude colored underwears and then changed to standard white one!

[@DDTC73]

I think i can confidently say that every Carrie The Musical fan thanks you for your service. Amazing stuff. Bravo.

[@garryspraggett9014]

Thank You Carrie was 3 years of my life that was brill and full of love with carrie and Terry. THANK YOU.

[@ErikChampney]

I’d certainly love to hear about that!

[@this_Joe_Smith]

❤💝❤

[@Chaneloweenz]

I genuinely can't believe people prefer the very literal and basic 2012 interpretation of the show to this incredibly spectacular piece of art.

[@Agrimorfee]

I just listened to the "premiere cast" album CD this weekend, and read Lawrence Cohen's liner notes about how they revamped the entire show for the revival. Wow, he wasn't exaggerating! Thanks for sharing this (even though I can't understand any of the vocals😔).

[@ErikChampney]

Oh I'm so sorry you can't!

[@sierramagallona]

THAT WAS THE BEST DESTRUCTION I HAVE EVER SEEN

[@davidprado545]

And ... the french horn, trombone, and timpani in "do me a favor" drive me crazy! i love it so much!

[@this_Joe_Smith]

Agree I love the orchestrations backing them. So amazing. Killer. Triumphant.

[@XoXoDazzlingDolls]

I feel like they were WORKING on the destruction almost every audio is different in some way or another

[@abbby6951]

OH MY GOD THIS-- YOU DESERVE SO MUCH HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS. GOD BLESS

[@ThatMonkeySam]

Bravo for this amazing endeavor! But am I the only one reminded of Whistler's "Mother" when the lights come up on Ms. Cook, in the chair, sliding downstage on the flat, during her first entrance?

[@ErikChampney]

That’s very fair lol

[@towerjunkie1947]

Thanks for restoring the best musical of all time!

[@giovannirastrelli9821]

I love “Stay Here Instead” in the original higher key and faster tempo. It really highlights Margaret’s hysterical desperation and mental breakdown.

[@this_Joe_Smith]

My soul acknowledges and loves your soul. Eternal Thanks. Your work touches me. You Honor Their Great Work.

[@ErikChampney]

Bless you.

[@theunamiable]

What a trip. I loved the dance scene with her prom costume. Not entirely sure they should try that in modern productions, but it was very charming.

[@gutterrat633]

I feel like a rendition of Dream On should be in the new version, even like a really short song version that’s like a minute long

[@this_Joe_Smith]

I'm forever thinking the missing 1988 tunes should be used like that.. Dream On as a song on a radio, ... Wotta Night as a marching band\ pep band number at their school...

[@KT-sq2ml]

I love the opening number in the original! And Dream On also. The new version is smaller scale, I get it, but I do miss the energy of this original gym scene.

[@catalinarusso7241]

♥️I love that musical♥️

[@lizzywolcott98]

Ohhh my god you have done such a great service! I’ve always wanted to watch the original!

[@johnznidarsic4846]

Bravo! This restoration is incredible!

[@keetard]

Such greatest blessing! Thank you Erik ❤️

[@bunkyprewster]

Erik this is incredible! Thank you so much, from the bottom of my heart!

[@this_Joe_Smith]

1:48:35 . I love the GONG . . . I'm listening & then realize ❤❤it's about to happen💥😭💀💖💖💖

[@raymondteodosbandlabvlog1676]

And Eve was Weak works so much better as an orchestral piece! Best rendition I’ve heard!

[@pensacolian211]

Too cool! Thanks for posting this!

[@sheismymom]

thank you for doing this

[@jlyn_hope]

This is the best one I've seen so far.

[@regzlots]

i've watched like three different recordings of this production, at 7:52 does the ensemble actually strip? i genuinely cannot tell if the actors are actually naked. if they are i cannot believe that! for such an insignificant detail, that is such an intimate thing to have the (almost) ENTIRE female cast do.

[@ErikChampney]

No they never get past bras and panties.

[@anhw3303]

You deserve this! 🥇🏆💐

[@bookemdano7567]

What a great job! Thank you! This is great to see and hear the entire score! But, I do prefer the singing and intensity of Betty Buckley’s Margaret over Barbara Cook’s. Linzi Hateley is, of course, as always, phenomenal!

[@xoffender45]

WOW! Thank you for doing this!!!

[@jonathanbroderick3599]

This is literally a dream come true!!

[@tdavis5680]

This is amazing! Thank you for this!!!!

[@ErikChampney]

Please feel free to enjoy the hell out of it, Thomas.

[@CraigFrancisSoto]

Betty Buckley's voice is much stronger and more emotional than Barbara Cook's. Ms. Cook had a very good voice but on stage,you cannot imagine how Buckley's soprano voice carries through the theater, It just sails and cuts like a knife. I saw her in Cats and Edwin Drood and her sound is wonderful.Her recordings often don't reveal the sheer power and intensity of her voice live on stage.

[@EricMontreal22]

Great work Erik!!

[@ErikChampney]

Hi stranger ♥️

[@EricMontreal22]

@@ErikChampney So this is what's been keeping you busy (I kid ;) ) Hope you're well

[@dianastandefer3172]

According to a "Cult Oddities" website that had a whole, entire section about the show, the emphasis on Carrie's psychokinesis was so slight that, to anyone that did not read the book (or watch the 1976 Brian De Palma movie, for that matter) weren't sure about what was going on.

[@this_Joe_Smith]

It's almost as if It's created for those who Know . . . no hand-holding

[@bigred8432]

Which is absolutely the wrong way to put a show or movie together

[@DDTC73]

Listen to the Podcast Out For Blood - everything you need to know about how the show was created.

[@mccperin]

@@this_Joe_Smith pointing out the reason n way the destruction even happens is not hand-holding, it's setting up a major plot point lmao i LOVE avant garde as much as the next guy but a teen drama that uses horror as a way 2 explore its messages is not rlly the place 4 mixed signals

[@lucasr621]

Gorgeous thumbnail. I want it framed

[@XoXoDazzlingDolls]

Anyone else notice that Sue has a fake ponytail in Do me a favor it's super long but she has a bob in every other scene and this ponytail is at least mid back length also pretty sure in the broadway reviewers reel she doesn't have the long ponytail

[@appouhal]

In: 0:41,

[@garryspraggett9014]

One day I will tell the true story of Carrie.

[@joshuanianko5388]

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[@Aneli713]

Question: so in this version the Mom doesn't kill Carrie? or I just didn't see it?

[@keetard]

She stabs her in the back while embracing her.

[@midgesherwood2685]

I still cannot find a decent justification on why this is a flopper out of all floppers. The orchestral music here is mich better than the revival!!!!!

[@keetard]

People are too dumb to understand its bizarre yet amazing art aspect. They think Carrie is a horror musical when it's rather a teen drama musical with a twist.

[@midgesherwood2685]

@@keetard Also, Terry Hands did a Horrible vision of the Musical. He headed the Lighting, the Set (especially the Whit Staircase) and the Costumes. He also altered some of the things the trio (Cohen-Gore-Pitchford) had created.

[@keetard]

@@midgesherwood2685 I don't think it's terrible. The lighting is done by him, sure. But it's amazing and he did get a lot of praise for that. The sets were done by Ralph Koltai. He is known for abstract and minimalistic sets. So basically, this musical is ahead of its time with avant-garde directing and design. Like some plays and opera. The directing style is surely what you'd find from Royal Shakespeare company. It's not a horrible vision, it's just too artistic for usual audiences and critics who prefer literal staging.

[@midgesherwood2685]

@@keetard you're actually right there!!! Ralph was a scenic designer whose minimalism is evident in operas. I just wish they revived it that way with the new songs added.

[@this_Joe_Smith]

@@midgesherwood2685 i want a youth opera to stage it. The 1988.

[@idkok3561]

Where you in the show or like how u getting all this

[@idkok3561]

But thanks you🥰

[@keetard]

It's the house camera recording.

[@F0URL34FCL0V3R]

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