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Marin Mazzie's Scary (in a Good Way) in Carrie the Musical by Whitney Spaner

The original Broadway musical version of Stephen King's 1974 novel Carrie was the most expensive flop of its time. The show premiered in 1988, starring Betty Buckley as Carrie's God-fearing mother and newcomer Linzi Hateley as the nerd-turned-cruel-prom-queen-joke, Carrie, and closed three days later. The show's horrible costumes, choreography and musical numbers, like one that took place on a pig farm as the high sc…

SOURCE: Paper Mag at 06:45PM on March 28, 2012

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