I agree with **storyteller **& DooWahDiddy. You’re completely off-base here, and saying it multiple times will not make it happen. Julie Taylor will have no trouble finding a future show on Broadway to work on.
I dunno, it’s not like Michael Cimino was awash in job offers after Heaven’s Gate.
She has thus far spent a record shattering amount of money on the production, put actors in danger on the set, presided over a record breaking preview period (to be extended 3 more months) and they need a new creative team to re-do much of her work so that they get a product that isn’t panned by the critics.
Not to say she won’t get any more jobs, but I suspect producers are going to be pretty wary of hiring her on, and she won’t get the kind of freedom she’s had in the past.
I do think she’ll probably be back on Broadway at some point (if she wants to be). She’s responsible for one enormous hit show and the angle of Taylor directing another show would generate a ton of publicity. But nobody’s going to give her the kind of blank check she got on this show. From the little I know, part of the problem here was that the producers and other creators didn’t have any Broadway experience, so if she was going too far in one direction, nobody was going to pull her back.
Good write up on the show in the NY Times: Spider-Man. A Superlative For All The Wrong Reasons
And it’s up to $70,000,000!
Holy freakin frijoles.
This looks craptacular.
How can you tell Spider-Man’s story and discard Uncle Ben? It’s like doing Hamlet and losing the whole “My dad was killed by my uncle” thing. This isn’t a nit-picky “Spider-man likes wheat-cakes not waffles” quibble, the Uncle Ben thing is is the single, key defining moment of the character. Do Moby Dick but lose the bit about how the whale crippled Ahab.
This, if true, is stupid beyond words. And also hearkens back to an (apocryphal?) story about the also massive flop “Carrie”. The director of Carrie had never done a musical before: she was into experimental art theater. She went up to Cameron MacIntosh or Hal Prince at a party and said “I’m doing Carrie: how would you envision the sets.”
The producer replies “Grease. I see it being staged like Grease”
She, having no musical experience hears “Greece” hence the columns, togas, Greek Chorus, etc. In Carrie. Which kinda undermined the whole heart of King’s story–horror/tragedy in an otherwise perfectly normal environment.
Or trying to tie the origin story in with Greek mythology, which to me is akin to saying that Superman derives his powers from midichlorians.
One wonders what she proposed for The Lion King before the Disney people said “you can use masks, but you will do the story as is.”
This would have worked out better if Stan Lee had gone to the initial readthrough with a loaded shotgun, if you ask me.
Actually JMS (Babylon 5) did an interesting take where Anasazi (which I’m spelling wrong) – the African Spider-Trickster God had a hand in Peter being there at exactly the right moment. And it was left to the readers to decide if that was “really” his origin since the guy who told that to Spidey wasn’t a reliable narrator. So it’s possible to do well. This? Not so much.
Also, Spidey shouldn’t have a Nike-Swoosh on his thighs…and…good lord. The Green Goblin costume looks idiotic…actually, it makes him look like Count Chocula
**Another ‘Spider-Man’ Actress Injured
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Is it more dangerous to be a Spiderman actor or to work at a Fukushima nuclear power plant?
Last performance until May 12. I feel bad for the actress playing Arachne. Her lead role will be scaled way back. Sure hope the changes make the show better and not worse. 
Tonight. Here’s the story:
At this point, how many sold-out performances will it take to break even?
Four years worth according to one New York Times writer:
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/14/spider-man-economics-recouping-that-initial-investment/
And what is the current record for sold-out performances of a show at a single theatre?
Not sure if there’s an exact record of that, since for various reasons there’ll often be a performance here and there that is not sold out, but **Wicked **still has the “This performance is sold out” sign up in their lobby every night and that’s been playing since October 2003. **Phantom of the Opera **was playing for over 14 years before any tickets were sold at discounted prices.
The Phantom of the Opera still sells out after 23 1/2 years!!!
If they manage to last as long as Spamalot or the Producers and get their money back, they should be thrilled to have escaped with their wallets intact. Even with the changes, I’m thinking it’ll be a Young Frankenstein type of exit, it’s too expensive to keep running if the house isn’t full with full price tickets practically every night.