1988 Carrie
1989 Rage
1996 Misery
neue Pläne mit Mellencamp
Am 12. Mai 1988 hat Regisseur Terry Hands versucht, Kings Roman "Carrie" als Musical aufzuführen. Nach der 5. Vorstellung wird das Musical jedoch als der "größte Flop der Broadway- Geschichte" abgesetzt. Das Projekt kostete mehr als 8 Mio. Dollar.
Cast & Crew:
Director...Terry Hands
Music...Michael Gore
Lyrics...Dean Pitchford
Choreographer...Debbi Allen
Cast:
Margaret White...Betty Buckley
Carrie White...Linzi Hateley
Chris...Charlotte D'Amboise
Tommy...Paul Gygnell
Billy...Gene Anthony Ray
Sue...Sally Anne Tiblett
mehr info:
http://www.angelfire.com/musicals/carriethemusical
"Pearl Productions" -- a company owned by novelist Robert B. Parker and his wife Joan -- produced this play. They did produced it because their son kept asking them to try getting King to do a play for them. King wasn't interested but offered them to buy the rights to one of his stories for $1, they did. The opening night was Marsh 30 1989 and they did seven performances at the Blackburne theater in Gloucester, MA.
Cast:
Charlie Dekker...Daniel Parker
Nachdem "Carrie" als Musical nicht sonderlich erfolgreich war, versucht es Simon Moore 02/1996 mit "Sie" als Theaterstück und hat wesentlich mehr Erfolg.
Stephen King's Misery: The Play
Feb 7, 2002: I received this email the other week from Thomas S Baxter of Sing Out Louise Stage Productions, and I thought it might be of interest:
"I am a theatre producer in the United Kingdom who is producing a 6 month national tour of Stephen King's 'Misery' from March this year. The play adapted by Simon Moore was originally performed in London in the early 1990's and starred Sharon Gless and Bill Patterson. This will be the first full scale tour of 'Misery' in the United Kingdom since it's original West End production..."
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Originally performed at the Criterion Theatre in London, December 17th 1992.
Director...Simon Moore
Designer...Patric Connellan
Lightning...Tim Mitchell
Music...Gavin Greenaway
Cast:
Annie Wilkes...Sharon Gless
Paul Sheldon...Bill Paterson
Auch in Deutschland wurde Misery auf der Bühne aufgeführt. Danke an Kai für diesen Tip:
"Vor einigen Jahren wurde "Misery" als Theaterstück auf deutschen Provinzbühnen aufgeführt. Jutta Speidel spielte die gute Annie. Ich habs gesehen und fand es ganz unterhaltsam."
King/Mellencamp musical news
John Mellencamp is planning to devote his attention this summer to the musical he's working on with King.
by Marcus Errico
http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,7267,00.html:
Stephen King and John Mellencamp: The Musical!?!
Cats, shmats. Thanks to the combined firepower of Stephen King and John Mellencamp, get ready for the singin'est, dancin'est, finger-snappin'est, top-tappin'est--and possibly spookiest--musical hit of the millennium.
In one of the weirder collaborations in the history of musical theater, the king of horror and heartland rocker are--we kid you not--working on a haunted musical, according to Billboard.
"Our goal is someday to end up on Broadway," Mellencamp tells the trade paper.
Based on an idea by Mellencamp, the still-untitled show focuses on a couple of estranged brothers, both around 20, who wind up with their father in a cabin inhabited by ancestral apparitions.
"What has happened is that the father had two older brothers who hated each other and killed each other in that cabin," Mellencamp tells Billboard. "There's a confederacy of ghosts who also live in this house. The older [dead] brothers are there, and they speak to the audience, and they sing to the audience. That's all I want to say, except through this family vacation, many things are learned about the family, and many interesting songs are sung."
Mellencamp took the idea to the horrormeister, who quickly signed on. "I was in Florida, so John came down and told me the plot," King tells Billboard. "It was kind of a ghostly thing, which is why he thought of me, I guess. I liked the story."
The latter-day Rodgers and Hammersteins are currently pounding out the musical book and score. Mellencamp says he already has finished four tunes, including ones called "My Name Is Joe" and "You Don't Know Me."
While the show is unlikely to feature a kick-line of high-stepping ghouls, Mellencamp says he does plan on having singing spirits. "I plan to have every person sing from their generation," he says. "This is what I'm thinking right now, but it may not work out this way. When the 18-year-old sings, he'll be rapping at you. When the people in their 70s are singing, they'll be singing in the style of Broadway or the style of Sinatra or country. I intend to cover any type of music that Americans have invented."
Of course, just because the musical is the brainchild of two proven superstars, Mellencamp and King aren't banking on instant success. After all, the 1988 multimillion-dollar musical adaptation of King's Carrie died a quick death (after an un-whopping five performances) on Broadway. In fact, it still stands as one of the biggest flops in stage history, behind the stage version of Big and Paul Simon's hyped musical theater foray, 1998's The Capeman, which lost $10 million.
"We talked about Capeman. John and I both agree that maybe it didn't work, but that this might," says King.
"That's really part of my attraction about working with him. He has a lot of courage and ability to go in there and say, 'This isn't supposed to work, but we're going to do it anyway.' "
Stephen King Online Chat September 2000:
TA: You seem at pains to try new things. Before your accident you were talking about giving up writing all together. Is that still a possibility?
SK: Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive. And I do know that I'm a lot closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I have these Dark Tower books that I'd like to finish, but then things come along and you get interested in them.
TA: What kind of things?
SK: There's this rock and roll guy, John Mellencamp, he got in touch with me last November and said 'I have an idea for a musical, a play,' so he came over to the house, tuned my guitar for me - and it never sounded better - and he told me this story, a ghost story, sounded great. So then we kind of worked something out. So now he's sent me a CD of a demo he'd done. So I got charged up by that. I've never written for music... And if you want ghosts I guess I'm the "go to" guy... I don't have a problem with that, but I am interested in trying new things. For a long time I've thought about the stage. Misery, for example, is almost a play in a book.