This musical, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and tailored from the 1974 Stephen King novel, initially premiering within the U.Ok. in 1988 earlier than a moderately unsuccessful and curtailed Broadway run. The revenged fueled thriller follows Carrie White, a shy, unpopular teenage lady, whose lonely life is managed by an oppressive, strictly non secular mom. That is, till she discovers her telekinetic powers. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the highschool promenade, she makes use of her powers to unleash chaos on everybody who has induced her ache. SEDOS’ manufacturing, directed by Chris Adams, has an enthusiastic forged who…
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SEDOS serve up a enjoyable revival of this musical that has a moderately checkered previous.
This musical, produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company, and tailored from the 1974 Stephen King novel, initially premiering within the U.Ok. in 1988 earlier than a moderately unsuccessful and curtailed Broadway run. The revenged fueled thriller follows Carrie White, a shy, unpopular teenage lady, whose lonely life is managed by an oppressive, strictly non secular mom. That is, till she discovers her telekinetic powers. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the highschool promenade, she makes use of her powers to unleash chaos on everybody who has induced her ache. SEDOS’ manufacturing, directed by Chris Adams, has an enthusiastic forged who make this a reasonably profitable revival of this cult-classic musical.
Upon getting into the theatre, the viewers is greeted with the eerie picture of Sue Snell, portrayed by Ellie McWilliam, sitting nervously in a lone chair on a broad stage, that includes solely a set of three stairs to the again wall and the varsity’s title plastered onto the wall. As time handed, and extra viewers members arrived, characters started rising, permitting for a punchy starting. The first act started pretty robust and because the present progressed, there have been examples of well-formed character choices, particularly within the title character, performed by the very gifted Sadie Kempner, and her telekinetic embodiment, represented by Polly Hayes who each in essence and bodily offered this tormented and broken character. However, there may be some pointless content material in a while, bulking out this portion of the present. It’s filled with redundant teen cliches and pointless, unsuccessful makes an attempt at modernizing this story, in addition to some clumsy and extended set adjustments, breaking the general phantasm.
The second act incorporates the vast majority of the motion, and the extra noteworthy moments from each the novel and 1976 movie. With blood pouring and punchier musical numbers, plus an thrilling climatic ending, this act felt extra impactful and well-rehearsed as a complete. It definitely leaves the viewers wanting extra as this climax felt as if it may have been stretched out to delay the drama and thriller facet of the present.
Throughout, the singing is persistently robust and nicely organized, that includes many alternatives for the entire forged to show their expertise. A notable contribution to this was Nina Zendejas as Margaret, Carrie’s mom. However, the choreography sadly left a lot to be desired. While I’d reward the motion of the supernatural scenes, the dances felt stagnant, a lot too secure and stereotypical of a highschool impressed musical.
If you’re a fan of this story, there may be undoubtedly one thing to achieve from seeing this manufacturing> however even when not, you might be assured a enjoyable, easy-to-palate musical theatre expertise.
Based on the novel by: Stephen King
Adapted by: Lawrence D. Cohen
Music by: Michael Gore
Lyrics by: Dean Pitchford
DIrected by: Chris Adams
Produced by: SEDOS
Carrie: The Musical has accomplished its run at Bridewell Theatre till 29 October.