Lawrence D. Cohen's Carrie:The Musical is an adaptation of Stephen King's novel, which centers around a socially awkward teenage girl with what newly discovered powers?
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Carrie (musical) Carrie: The Musical is a musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore. Adapted from Stephen King's novel "Carrie", it focuses on an awkward teenage girl with telekinetic powers whose lonely life is dominated by an oppressive religious fanatic mother. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the high school prom, she wreaks havoc on everyone and everything in her path.
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Carrie (novel) Carrie is a novel by American author Stephen King. It was his first published novel, released on April 5, 1974, with an approximate first print-run of 30,000 copies. Set primarily in the then-future year of 1979, it revolves around the eponymous Carrie White, a misfit and bullied high school girl who uses her newly discovered telekinetic powers to exact revenge on those who torment her, while in the process causing one of the worst local disasters in American history. King has commented that he finds the work to be "raw" and "with a surprising power to hurt and horrify." It is one of the most frequently banned books in United States schools. Much of the book uses newspaper clippings, magazine articles, letters, and excerpts from books to tell how Carrie destroyed the fictional town of Chamberlain, Maine while exacting revenge on her sadistic classmates and her own mother Margaret.
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'Salem's Lot ' Salem's Lot is a 1975 horror fiction novel written by the American author Stephen King. It was his second published novel. The story involves a writer named Ben Mears who returns to the town of Jerusalem's Lot (or 'Salem's Lot for short) in Maine, where he had lived from the age of three through seven, only to discover that the residents are becoming vampires. The town is revisited in the short stories "Jerusalem's Lot" and "One for the Road", both from King's story collection, "Night Shift" (1978). The novel was nominated for the World Fantasy Award—Novel in 1976, and the Locus Award for the All-Time Best Fantasy Novel in 1987.
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Awkward (graphic novel) Awkward is a children's graphic novel written by Svetlana Chmakova. The book tells the story of Penelope Torres, a new student at Berrybrook Middle School, whose first encounter with a boy from the science club leads to several awkward encounters that Peppi must learn to overcome for the good of her art club, the school, and herself.
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Angela Bettis Angela Marie Bettis (born January 9, 1973) is an American film and stage actress, film producer, and director best known for her lead roles in the 2002 TV adaptation of the Stephen King novel "Carrie", the title character in "May" (2002), and in "Girl, Interrupted" as an anorexic psychiatric patient Janet Webber.
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Darkest Powers The Darkest Powers is a series of paranormal novels by Kelley Armstrong. The series revolves around The Edison Group, a team of supernatural scientists, and the subjects they have experimented on. The novels are divided into two trilogies. "The Summoning", "The Awakening", and "The Reckoning" comprise "The Darkest Powers" trilogy, which follows fifteen-year-old necromancer Chloe Saunders. "The Gathering", "The Calling", and "The Rising" comprise "The Darkness Rising" trilogy, which follows a sixteen-year-old girl named Maya Delaney.
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Nikki Reed Nicole Houston Reed (born May 17, 1988) is an American actress, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, and model known for her portrayal of vampire Rosalie Hale in "The Twilight Saga" (2008–2012). She became known in 2003, after the release of the film "Thirteen", directed by Catherine Hardwicke, for which she was credited with Hardwicke as a co-writer of the screenplay, and in which she played a lead role. The film earned Reed an Independent Spirit Award for Best Debut Performance, as well as several nominations.
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Christine (novel) Christine is a horror novel written by Stephen King, published in 1983. It tells the story of a vintage automobile apparently possessed by supernatural forces. A film adaptation, directed by John Carpenter, was released in the same year; this adaptation starred Keith Gordon, John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul and Harry Dean Stanton. In April 2013, PS Publishing released "Christine" in a limited 30th Anniversary Edition.
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Carrie (digital library) Carrie is an online digital library project based at the University of Kansas containing full-text books and documents. The site became operational in 1993, and has the distinction of being among the first university-library hosted sites for full on-line texts. The site, named after the University's first professional librarian, evolved from an earlier collection of online resources. This evolution was spearheaded by Lynn Nelson, a professor of history, and put into effect by a team creating the Lynx text-based browser. In 1993, the site linked to over three thousand texts. It currently has extensive links to historical documents relating to Kansas history, as well as significant links to material in other areas.
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Need (novel series) Need is a series of young adult urban fantasy novels by American author Carrie Jones, beginning with the inaugural entry of the same name. The focus of the story is a teenage girl named Zara, who joins a struggle against a society of malicious pixies. As the books progress, Zara encounters a series of personal challenges, and bonds with new friends and romantic interests.
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Freaky Friday (musical) Freaky Friday is a musical with music and lyrics by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, and a book by Bridget Carpenter. Based on the 1972 book of the same name, the musical is an adaptation of the 1976 and 2003 films. When an overworked mother and her teenage daughter magically swap bodies, they have just one day to put things right again before mom’s big wedding.
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The Magician King The Magician King is a fantasy novel by Lev Grossman, published in 2011 by Viking Press, the sequel to "The Magicians". It continues the story of Quentin Coldwater, interweaving it with the story of his high school crush, Julia, who learned magic outside of the standard school setting and joined him in Fillory.
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Carrie White Carrietta N. "Carrie" White is the title character and protagonist of Stephen King's novel "Carrie" who is the older half-sister of Rachel Lang.
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List of Awkward characters The following is a list of characters from the MTV comedy television series "Awkward", which was created by Lauren Iungerich, and follows Jenna Hamilton, a Palos Verdes, California, teenager who struggles with her identity, especially after an accident is misconstrued as a suicide attempt.
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None of the Above (novel) None of the Above is a novel by I. W. Gregorio, published in 2015 about an adolescent intersex girl, Kristin, who discovers she has an intersex condition shortly after becoming Homecoming Queen.
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Martha Johansson Martha Johansson, also known as No-Girl, is a fictional mutant character, an isolated brain, from the "" comic book series, set in the Marvel Universe and published by Marvel Comics.
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Jennifer Damiano Jennifer "Jenn" Damiano (born May 12, 1991) is an American actress and singer, most known for originating the role of Natalie Goodman in "Next to Normal" on Broadway. She was nominated for the 2009 Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. She appeared in "" on Broadway as Mary Jane Watson; the musical opened officially on June 14, 2011. She returned to Broadway in March 2016 in the musical adaptation of "American Psycho".
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Whenever (play) Whenever is a 2000 children's musical play with words Alan Ayckbourn and music by Denis King, that was shown as the Stephen Joseph Theatre's Christmas production. It is loosely derived from "The Wizard of Oz", and it is about a young Victorian girl named Emily to travels back and forth in time to avert a disaster.
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Anita Blake Anita Blake is the title and viewpoint character of the "" series by Laurell K. Hamilton. The series takes place in a parallel world in which supernatural characters like vampires and werewolves exist alongside regular humans, with Blake's jobs including the re-animation of the dead as well as the hunting and executing of supernatural creatures (mostly vampires) that have broken the law. Hamilton stated that she created the character after perceiving a gender inequality in detective fiction, with female characters rarely getting the same treatment as male heroes of the genre.
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Dangerous Girls Dangerous Girls is the first novel in the "Dangerous Girls" series by R. L. Stine. First published in 2003, the novel was followed by a sequel, "The Taste of Night", in 2004. "Dangerous Girls" has won awards, including the ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant Young Adult Readers and the New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age.
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Speak (Anderson novel) Speak, published in 1999, is a young adult novel by Laurie Halse Anderson that tells the story of high school freshman Melinda Sordino. After accidentally busting an end-of-summer party due to an unnamed incident, Melinda is ostracized by her peers because she will not say why she called the police. Unable to verbalize what happened, Melinda nearly stops speaking altogether, expressing her voice through the art she produces for Mr. Freeman's class. This expression slowly helps Melinda acknowledge what happened, face her problems, and recreate her identity.
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Pixie (X-Men) Pixie (Megan Gwynn) is a fictional character, a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Pixie belongs to the subspecies of humans called mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. Her mutation grants her pixie-like eyes, colorful wings that allow her to fly, and "pixie dust" which causes hallucinations. After a confrontation with the revived former member of the New Mutants, Magik, she gains the ability to use magic and a magical weapon called the "Souldagger."