'Carrie' draws too little blood

When the musical version of Stephen King's "Carrie" opened on Broadway in 1988, the reviews were so poisonous that it shuttered within three days, going into the books as one of the most infamous bombs of all time. It was, apparently, the hyperventilating schlock of the enterprise that drew critics' and audiences' ire, an attribute that was on display in "Out for Blood," a number that Carrie's high school tormenters sang as they, gulp, slaughtered a pig.