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An exclusive preview of Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical. New: Chris's book Out for Blood: a Cultural History of Carrie the Musical is published this July! Pre-order now from the publisher or all good book stores... Read More

From the show: Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical

2 mins
10/14/20

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An exclusive preview of Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical.

New: Chris's book Out for Blood: a Cultural History of Carrie the Musical is published this July! Pre-order now from the publisher or all good book stores.

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[0:00] Chris Adams: Stephen King's horror movie has been turned into a horror of a Broadway musical.

[0:09] Holly Morgan: And like, you just want to, you want to see her covered in blood.

[0:13] Chris Adams: For me and my collaborators, we stood in the back of the audience going, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, you're sending all the wrong signals.

[0:22] Holly Morgan: You know, once we got in the theater, I think to myself, what the fuck is going on here?

[0:27] Chris Adams: Stories became so embellished and you saw that that wasn't actually how it was.

[0:32] Holly Morgan: Like this did not, it didn't feel like there's something, something is terribly wrong.

[0:44] Chris Adams: Coming later this year.

[0:46] Holly Morgan: There were so many cuts and so many changes. He was like, guys, if you can remember the hell that's going on, good luck.

[0:52] Chris Adams: Two fans deep dive into their 20 year obsession.

[0:55] Holly Morgan: I've done like bigger things in my career, but like that is the one thing that has followed me.

[1:00] Chris Adams: It's been called Broadway's greatest flop.

[1:03] Holly Morgan: I've had a lot of great things happen to me, but the absolute maddening joy of receiving the video cassette of Act One of Carrie on Broadway was like, there's just no other feeling. It'll never be tapped.

[1:17] Chris Adams: But was it really the disaster people say it was?

[1:20] Holly Morgan: Betty sort of rushed down to the front and she held my hand in the dark and I looked at her and she just went, let's see.

[1:29] Chris Adams: It's made fun of and dismissed the subject matter of Carrie, because you can't do that without making fun of and dismissing women's needs and, and pain.

[1:42] Holly Morgan: We found somebody to whom the show mattered as much as it matters to us.

[1:49] Chris Adams: Out for Blood, the story of Carrie the musical.

[1:52] Holly Morgan: The mystique of the Broadway Carrie is, is a mystique that, you know, people just sort of have to tell you the stories and piece it together from photos.

[2:03] Chris Adams: And, you know, it's, it's hard to really, it's hard to really capture.

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