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[0:00] Holly Morgan: I'm Holly. And I'm Chris.

[0:01] Chris Adams: A long time ago, we became obsessed with a blurry VHS recording of Broadway's most infamous flop.

[0:08] Holly Morgan: So this year, with a lot of spare time on our hands, we decided to dive deep into the history and the mysteries of Carrie the Musical.

[0:17] Chris Adams: I think that Carrie just became this kind of the lead car in the train of people who maybe take, you know, perverse pleasure in seeing something this bad.

[0:29] Holly Morgan: The lights went out, and there was a mixture of boos and cheers, and it was just like, what the fuck is going on? You know, is this, do they like us? Do they hate us? What is it?

[0:40] Chris Adams: We'll meet the cast.

[0:41] Lindsay Hathaway: Hello, my name's Lindsay Hathaway.

[0:42] Sally Ann Triplett: It's Sally Ann Triplett.

[0:44] Charlotte Amboise: Charlotte Amboise.

[0:45] Chris Adams: The creators.

[0:46] Dean Pitchford: Hi, my name is Dean Pitchford.

[0:48] Holly Morgan: And the audience.

[0:49] Unknown speaker: It all stops cold, and he looks down and goes, shit, look at all them pigs.

[0:54] Chris Adams: And we'll be investigating how it all went horribly, messily wrong.

[0:59] Holly Morgan: What we had was a show that was created by two different people in two different spaces, and then brought together and welded down the middle.

[1:08] Chris Adams: You know, once we got in the theater, I think I saw, what the fuck is going on here? Like, this did not, it didn't feel like there's something, something is terribly wrong.

[1:16] Holly Morgan: We never did the same show twice. It was torn in so many directions. No wonder I ate a lot of ice cream.

[1:24] Chris Adams: We're awful. We're gonna, this show is awful. We're going down.

[1:28] Holly Morgan: I'm not saying we mutinied, but we got Debbie along in our lunch hour and said, Debbie, you've got to help us.

[1:33] Unknown speaker: I had to come with a bucket and, like, hit it over her head.

[1:38] Unknown speaker: And so you see this, like, red glob, like, like a blob, a little blob, and I go, you know, and then she would have to kind of put it on her. Anyway, it was so bad.

[1:51] Unknown speaker: And I remember being so embarrassed by it. And then I remember we came to New York, and they were like, we're cutting the blood. Cut it. We're just gonna put red light on her.

[2:00] Chris Adams: There was so much about it with the talent that was on the stage and some of the musical writing that, you know, the potential of it, which is why it won't go away, was phenomenal.

[2:10] Holly Morgan: Everybody has to be called and told, get out of your apartment, pack your bags, go back to England, go.

[2:17] Chris Adams: It was devastating.

[2:20] Holly Morgan: And meeting the small army of fans determined to bring Carrie back from the dead.

[2:24] Unknown speaker: I bought a blank videotape with me, and I decided if I got the opportunity, I was going to leave with the Carrie tape and leave them with the blank tape.

[2:35] Unknown speaker: And I did. I think that it was, like, a person who was, like, not interested in trading. They were like, I will sell you this Carrie audio for, you know, it was probably $100. It was like, I remember this, it was, like, expensive.

[2:48] Chris Adams: One thing's for sure, Carrie is the musical that just doesn't die.

[2:52] Holly Morgan: I have absolutely no regrets of being part of Carrie. And in fact, now I'm very proud of it.

[2:58] Chris Adams: Out for blood.

[2:59] Holly Morgan: Listen now at bpn.fm slash out for blood or wherever you listen to podcasts.