Out For Blood av Chris Adams

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Featuring contributions from over eighty original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, <i>Out For Blood </i>pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of <i>Carrie The Musical</i> to discover how this ¿horror of a Broadway musical¿ lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story.In 1988, following the success of its production of <i>Les Mis¿bles</i> and in the wake of the commercial success of mega-musicals such as <i>Cats, Phantom of the Opera </i>and <i>Chess</i>, the Royal Shakespeare Company agreed to co-produce a musical based on Stephen King¿s <i>Carrie</i>, written by the team behind <i>Fame</i>. The result was one of Broadway''s most infamous disasters. Plagued by technical problems, on-stage chaos and a critical savaging, <i>Carrie</i> would soon become the by-word for musical theatre flops. But thanks to the efforts of a vocal army of fans and the impact of bootleg trading and emerging online communities,