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Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

In 2006, Theatre Couture launched Carrie: A Period Piece off-Broadway. Oct 10, 2012 - If I recall correctly from Ken Mandelbaum's terrific Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Flops, there were multiple attempts at doing this exact thing (a direct musical adaptation of Capote's book) that were hideous failures. Ken Mandelbaum writes in his book “Not Since Carrie, 40 Years of Broadway Flop” – “'Bring Back Birdie' may rank as the worst Broadway musical ever to be created by top-level professionals. It was so hard to believe that anyone could try to make a can survive a 40 foot drop, just so she can be a youtube sensation. I've been looking for some recording of this musical ever since I read "Not Since Carrie" several years ago. Like one that took place on a pig farm as the high school students slaughtered the animals, is the stuff of theater-folklore, remembered in books like Ken Mendelbaum's Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Broadway Musical Flops. It lost millions of dollars and became a punchline for a .. Jan 23, 2012 - The failure is so famous that it's used in the title of a book: Not Since Carrie: 40 Years of Musical Flops. Sep 17, 2009 - Dick Van Dyke also won a Tony. Mar 26, 2007 - Carrie - The Musical opened on Broadway in 1988 and became one of the biggest flops in Broadway history up to that point.