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Out for Blood: The Story of Carrie the Musical

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Bonus! The Aftermath

April 7, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min

You ain’t seen nothing yet! It’s gonna be a night you’ll never forget! Chris and Holly are back with a special all-new bonus update, partly because they haven’t got anything else to do, and partly because so much has happened in the…
Bonus! Playing Carrie

March 31, 2021 · 30 min

In this special mini episode featuring bonus interview footage, Holly and Chris chat with six of the talented performers who have played Carrie in the landmark productions of this legendary show, and find out what it’s like to bring to…
Chapter 10: Someday, someone will know my name

March 24, 2021 · 1 hr 16 min

It’s been quite a journey. Holly and Chris look back at their Carrie adventure and try and answer some burning questions. We ask an expert, author of ‘Flop Musicals of the Twentieth Century’ Stephen Purdy, if Carrie really can be defined…
Chapter 9: Back from the dead

March 17, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min

Carrie the Musical is back. It’s been revived in New York, it has an official cast recording with millions of streams, and it’s about to hit the mainstream. How did this famous flop end up being the focus of a big-time teen drama series?…
Chapter 8: A sturdy little battleship

March 10, 2021 · 1 hr 9 min

By 2012, over two decades had passed since Carrie the Musical’s high-profile Broadway car crash, and the last thing its creators wanted was to resurrect the show that haunted them. But the requests for a revival kept coming in. We find…

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Chapter 7: Are you a Friend of Carrie?

March 3, 2021 · 59 min

With an epic standing ovation on closing night, and urban legends already forming about its turbulent journey to the stage, Carrie the Musical had become an instant cult classic. If you’d missed Carrie’s all-too-brief run on Broadway, you…
Chapter 6: Act Two: Sh*t! Look at all these pigs!

February 24, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min

We continue our deep, deep dive into Broadway’s most infamous flop as we charge head-first into the madness and mayhem of Act Two! And mayhem it really is! Leather outfits! Dead pigs! Is that a medieval sword? A rap! A giant disco ball!…
Chapter 5: Act One: Cardboard cars and unitards

February 17, 2021 · 1 hr 9 min

In the first of two special episodes, we take a close look at the original 1988 staging of Carrie, examining it song by song and scene by scene to try and work out exactly where things go wrong and why this show became so infamous in…
Chapter 4: Broadway: They’ll make fun of you, they will break your heart

February 10, 2021 · 1 hr 16 min

The eager Carrie cast arrives in the Big Apple only to discover that very little has been done to address the show’s major problems, and that the show’s set has been lost in transit. But there is one major addition: Betty Buckley, a…
Chapter 3: Stratford: Doesn't anybody ever get it right?

February 3, 2021 · 1 hr 11 min

Rehearsals for Carrie the Musical continue in Stratford-upon-Avon, England. But as the show hurtles towards its opening night, the cast soon feel like they’re working on two very different shows, and the frustration of the writing team…
Chapter 2: Make it like Greece!

January 27, 2021 · 1 hr 8 min

Holly and Chris’s dreams come true as they chat with members of the original cast of Carrie the Musical over wine, including Charlotte D’Amboise (Chris), Sally Ann Triplett (Sue) and legendary OG Carrie White herself, Linzi Hateley, not to…
Chapter 1: From Page to Stage

January 27, 2021 · 49 min

In 1988 the Royal Shakespeare Company teamed up with the creators of Fame to turn Stephen King's horror novel ‘Carrie’ into a musical. The result was one of Broadway's most infamous disasters. For fans Holly and Chris, an obsession was…

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About the show

CARRIE THE MUSICAL has long been considered the Queen of Broadway Flops. It closed in record time, losing millions of dollars. But can the rumors of backstage chaos, on-stage accidents, audience hysterics and killer reviews really be true? Prepare to discover the surprising story behind the show’s creation and its infamously disastrous run as two obsessive fans, Chris Adams and Holly Morgan, dust off their bootleg VHS tape and decide to find out the truth. They meet the cast, crew and creators, sift through the mysteries and urban legends, chat to some famous super-fans, and find out how Carrie rose from the dead and reinvented itself as a mainstream musical success story. An all-new and exclusive 10-part miniseries on the Broadway Podcast Network. "Compulsory listening... an audio autopsy of what went wrong with Carrie the Musical" - BritishTheatre.com "We are absolutely obsessed with Out for Blood..." - BroadwayBox.com "After listening to the first five minutes I was like “oh hell yes” and went and added 3 more episodes to my queue... the premise had me immediately hooked, but the amazing content kept me listening" - Podcast the Newsletter "Very detailed oral history of an infamous Broadway disaster" - The Listener 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.