Carrie Hope Fletcher

Could be one of the two new shows at the Dominion...

I think it's way more likely that she'd do a preachy video about the etiquette of not breaking into a performer's house tbh...

 
Part of the MTFest.

Shes playing a gay, Christian cheerleader who gets sent off to conversion therapy. 


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I think it's more that people find it mildly amusing that she complains so much about dealing with her fame/fans, when really in absolute terms it's very minor. Yes, Rachel Tucker is similarly known/unknown outside of musical theatre circles but doesn't make nearly so much noise about it!

Bear in mind that musical theatre really is a very niche interest, compared to other pop culture. I mean, my regular theatre buddy had no idea why actual famous person Brian May turned up at a musical theatre carol service before Christmas - she'd never even heard of Kerry Ellis, and had not the slightest idea that he'd produced a couple of albums and toured with her. That's how little penetration into the mainstream musical theatre news gets.

She's playing Fantine in the new Les Mis at the Gielgud.

Hmmm, seems I've not explained myself very well as is my habit, damn you internet! Mind you a (not)subtle insinuation of insincerity seems beyond the pale!

I've never seen CHF in a show so don't know her credits from a programme bio, thanks to those who took time to fill me in, am still baffled a little at her 'reach'. Kathryn above makes a good point about musical theatre stardom and in this case up to Heathers there doesn't appear to be a break out or stand out role in her CV and I sense her popularity and fan base were already well established then. I've honestly never seen a book of hers for sale anywhere, and I'm a book shop haunter, or mentioned/plugged by others and yet through Twitter I know about for example Andrew Keenan Bolger's book, maybe it's just down to the people I follow? Who knows.

As for the YouTube channel/videos, again she was not on my radar from that point of view and whilst there are known names out there like Zoella and James Charles, who seem to get on mainstream sites like the BBC, again CHF hasn't come to my notice that way. Would she bring Birmingham to a standstill as the latter allegedly did? (I think there was a story on the BBC site by CHF around Christmas time about body shaming or weight perhaps?)I like to think I have an intelluctual curiosity about people and tend to seek out information on names unfamiliar to me but again you look CHF up on CastAlbums and she has one credit, on IMDB she has 3 credits. So the attention seems disproportionate. Not, of course that those sites are the arbiters of success.

None of this is to disparage her or her talent which may be immense, I just find the attention she gets or seems to get unusual. Especially as so much seems to be negative thoughts and attitudes to her.

And yes, Ryan, Google is my friend, although other search engines are available of course. It was so thoughtful of you to point that out four days after my original post in such a non supercilious fashion. Thank you.

I was at the stage door of Les Mis when she was Eponine (I was waiting for someone else). Precisely two people were waiting to see her - although to be fair it was a weekday matinee and her fans were probably all at school!

i stagedoored at the time too, mostly for Anton Zetterholm,
and everytime there were at least 20 girls, and all wanted to tell Carrie their whole life story and all their problems , also
got shoved around while Carrie tried to get a break and get something to eat but the swarm followed her

I think she uses her social media presence very effectively across multiple platforms to build “hype” around her books, her shows, concerts, vlogs etc. So whilst she might not be hugely well known outside of that fan base, the people she has following her are highly engaged and will pretty much consume anything she puts out. She’s very clever, but she has to perpetually feed the monster to keep it all going. And that means she has to give a lot of herself to the fans, who are always greedy for more more more, which then becomes the topic for more and more output. 

If she’s really any good then the time will presumably come when she doesn’t have to do this any more. But the two performances I saw (Addams Family and Heathers) were proficient but not outstanding. I think she’s overrated. 

Does she have the vocals for Cosette? It's a very different vocal range.

That's what I thought. But hey, all you need is long curly hair lol!