Spiderman: What a tangled web we weave
When first we put on a horribly written boondoggle of a production and then start injuring cast members in hopes that the audience won’t leave
How about :
Spiderman: Turn off the Bad Reviews: Still not Frozen Thus Rendering Criticism Invalid.
In late breaking news, Julie Traymor appeared before a joint session of theater critics and theater owners, and pledged a program to open Spiderman before the end of this decade, and to return the actors safely to their dressing rooms.
More good news!
A travelling show is only going to be successful if the public knows and loves the songs (this applies to musicals, of course). I bought a New Yorker magazine eons ago with The Phantom of the Opera on the cover, article inside stating a NY theater being completely made over to accommodate the show (which hadn’t opened) at a cost of $12 million. Mr. Sali said, do they think it’s going to be worth it, is it going to be an enormous hit? I guess so. Because eons later when the travelling production came here, we went…all this leading up to, if Spiderman has catchy, beloved hit songs, and it came to our city some distant day in the future, we might go see it. But NOT just to watch actors swinging on wires and maybe falling into the audience.
Technical glitch leaves Spidertan and Green Goblin hanging by a thread.
SNL commercial for the law film of Gublin & Green, specializing in lawsuits against the show from injured actors.
Looks like it is being re-written, at least partially, at the last minute. Wow, this is seriously late game to be re-writing something.
Ditto NY Times
Not a good sign: Can’t they get it right the first, fifth or 100th time?
Andrew Lloyd Webber is now working on two separate versions of his Phantom sequel, Love Never Dies. One is going to tryout in Austraila, one in Toronto. If either works, it will hit Broadway. But I ain’t holding my breath.
Taymor is out. Phil McKinley is in.
Sounds like not so much ‘out’ as ‘down’.
They are bringing in a circus director which is very appropriate for this show.
The producers are denying any truth to that story.
Spider-Man Spokesperson Says Producers Not Planning To Bring in a Co-Director
But they are bringing in a new musical supervisor and conductor
My wife is in the theatre industry, and knows a few people working on the show. We wish them well, and for the show to have a nice substantial run so that everyone working there can have the security of a good job.
However, it’s difficult to read these reports without laughing at what a cock up it’s turned out to be.
Opening may be delayed again
Well, I am seeing this today (will I be the only person on this board to have seen it?) so I’ll let you know what I think. Unfortunately I have an extremely crappy seat, so I may not even be able to see much of the aerial work, which kind of defeats the purpose of me even seeing it but whatever. Maybe I can change seats at intermission if there’s an open one somewhere else.
What. The Fuck.
That was… certainly something.
The book really is as bad as people have said. The first act was pretty straight-forward, basically just the plot of the first Spider-Man movie, but the second act, my God! I don’t know *what *they were trying to do! It just meanders all over the place and makes no sense whatsover! The last 10 minutes are especially bad, as it seemed like they realized the show was already running long and just decided to thrown in a bizarre ending.
(My seat, which had been in the very back row of the Orchestra, actually wasn’t that bad. The height of the Mezzanine was such that I was actually able to see most of the aerial stunts. I was able to change seats at intermission to center row H though, woohoo!)
Surprisingly, for all the talk about the aerial effects, they were few and far between. Very well done, but I actually thought there’d be more flying. The set is amazing, the forced perspective and comic book-like setting work very well, but that’s about the only positive thing I can say. I can see how they have potential to have a good show in there, but they’d need to seriously rewrite the book to have any positive effect. The “geek chorus” is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen on stage.
Glad I only paid $30!
Wow, only $30 for rear orchestra? I thought the tickets were starting at something like $70 or $80. How did you also get to switch seats? Were you with someone else who had that seat and you guys traded?
Why are you calling it a “book?”