{"id":8593,"date":"2014-07-11T09:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8593"},"modified":"2014-07-11T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T13:56:41","slug":"carrie-white-will-never-die-i-review-the-carrie-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/07\/carrie-white-will-never-die-i-review-the-carrie-musical.html","title":{"rendered":"“Carrie White Will Never Die”: I review the Carrie musical"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

at AmCon:<\/p>\n

Carrie<\/em> is the only book I ever put down because I knew I was too young for it. It was the summer between fourth and fifth grade and I was staying with cousins, taking the opportunity to raid their bookshelves. I flipped idly through the book\u2019s opening, got to the shower scene (\u201cPlug it up! Plug it up!\u201d), and\u2013for once in my life\u2013realized I was in over my head. The combination of nudity, menstruation, and sadism, all happening to kids just a few years older than I was, overwhelmed me. I\u2019m not ready for this<\/em>, I thought.<\/p>\n

Part of Carrie\u2019<\/em>s\u00a0power is that it\u2019s a story about the universal experience of not being ready: for change, for moral responsibility, for life after high school. It\u2019s a story which speaks to the boy sitting in jail, the girl staring at the pregnancy test waiting to see if the second line will show up. We treat youth as a Las Vegas of the soul, but what we do in our youth is as irrevocable as what we do everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Spoilers for Carrie<\/em>\u2013the book, movie, and musical\u2013below.<\/p>\n

DC\u2019s Studio Theatre is staging \u201cCarrie: The Musical\u201d through August 3<\/a>, on its smaller upstairs stage. I was surprised to find that the elements of Carrie White\u2019s story which usually resonate most deeply with me left me pretty cold here, and the one element I\u2019ve always dismissed was the one which most chilled and haunted me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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