Spider-Man sells rush seats each morning when the box office opens for $30 each. They’re all over the theatre, just whatever is available at the time. Usually very back of the Orchestra, box seats, or Balcony. There’s only a select number for sale each day, and it changes each time. Today they had at least 40 seats for sale, but on other days they’d have less than 20. I got there at 10:30am (box office opened at noon) and was 28th on line.
Because that is what the written story of a musical is called. Movies have screenplays. Musicals have books.
Whoops, I forgot to answer this part. I had seen an empty seat up front before the show began. Seeing it was still unoccupied when intermission began, I moved up. I’ve done that many times before, the ushers don’t mind. Plus, the guy next to me in my original seat was becoming obnoxious. I don’t know if he had some kind of problems or what, but at one point he kind of stamped the floor really loudly and banged on the seat in front of him (annoying the people in that row as well.) Plus he kept speaking in Spanish at a regular volume to the woman next to him. (Just because you are speaking a different language doesn’t mean you can’t be heard!)
Wow, it sounds like they are going to bring a bunch of people in to “fix” the problems. That often leads to “Too many cooks in the kitchen”. Taymor needs to jump off the sinking ship while she can.
They bring people in to fix shows all the time. The only surprise here is what is taking so long. There have been rumors about some other people - named - to be brought in. Perhaps Taymor was resisting. And she not only built the ship, it looks like she drilled a hole through the hull.
I think if I were anywhere near NY I’d have to see it, just because it seems like it would be such a spectacular failure. I wonder how much of the audience is going to be people like me. And how long the show can sustain itself on trainwreck spotters.
More about Taymor potentially leaving. There were reports last night that she was out. The spokesman who usually says everything is fine - for example he still says there is no official delay for opening night - says he couldn’t confirm the reports she had quit.
I don’t know from the first part, but I’d be willing to bet a shiny nickel that you’re dead wrong about the second part. Julie Taymor has won two Tony Awards and been nominated for two (?) more. Lion King has made a lot of people a lot of money. Someone will hire her again.
Yeah, I don’t know why you keep spouting that nonsense. It sounds really, really dramatic and you don’t have anything to back it up with. Yes, I want people to stop getting hurt at the show. Yes, I think it’s a huge mistake and think it’s probably horrible to sit through (full disclosure: I have not seen it). But is Julie Taymor going to be bagging groceries at Kroger’s next year? Hardly. People make mistakes. Even Stephen Sondheim wrote Road Show. The world goes on a-spinning. And she will find work after this. She just needs to let it go and move on, quickly.
Yeah, these folks always land on their feet. Granted, the fall is still going to hurt and she’s not going to come out of it unscathed, but her career will survive.
Heh, I’ve never actually had that happen. There was another empty seat next to mine that someone else moved to as well.