That cover is really bad. They actually should have gone with the photo they used on the ads halfway through the run. The red photo with Molly during the destruction. That was a striking photo.
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
That cover looks like it was done by a 6 year old on a computer painting program. All it's missing is a rainbow, some clouds and a half sun on the top right corner.
"Yeah... the cover seems a little too close to "The Rage: Carrie 2.""
I think it's far closer to a cheap MS Paint knockoff of the current cover art for the original than what is being used on the terrible sequel (which does not seem to have been made available on blu ray yet).
It does seem to be heavily inspired by The Rage artwork and the type looks even more like the Cats logo than the other one did.
I'm glad they recorded so much though. I was thinking that a lot of those reprises wouldn't be included. Hopefully, the "Invited" section is included on the "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" track. I'll be pretty bummed if they didn't record it.
It also shares the same ideas used on the cover of the Scarrie cast recording -- just executed differently. The fire and the silhouette are both there. I think that's why it looks so off-putting to me. It looks like a parody of itself.
To be fair, the album artwork IS close to many "Carrie" dvd covers, but the minimalistic paint style is of a piece with the recent re-edition cover style of many early Stephen King novels.
They can't release it on iTunes now because they still have to make decent cover art. That's why they gave themselves until 9/25/12 to release it. Geez!
^It's growing on me a little bit the more I look at it, but I still think it looks too much like a parody of what Carrie the musical artwork would look like.