Broadway history is littered with flop musicals " but if some shows are bombs, then Carrie, based on Stephen King's best-selling 1974 novel, was kind of a nuclear bomb. The story of a teenager with telekinetic powers who wreaks bloody havoc on her small Maine town had already been successfully adapted as a film starring Sissy Spacek in 1976. But as a musical? Frank Rich was theater critic for The New York Times whe…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AM on March 1, 2012