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Published on October 09, 2003

The apocalyptic prom scene in Brian De Palma's Carrie literally brought the house down around the title heroine and all her heartless tormenters. Ditto the recreation of the danse macabre in Late Night Theatre's A Scarrie Carrie Christmas Carol. On a budget stretched as tight as Joan Rivers' forehead, Ron Megee's Carrie White stood center stage draped with crepe-paper blood while cosmic decorations rained down about him. Even the basketball goal telekinetically swung down and crushed De De DeVille's butch gym teacher. The question people kept asking later: "How did they do that?"