SPIDER-MAN Stops Midshow Again

[macbeth]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 9:48pm

Scoop: @SpideyOnBway is doing an industry-only performance tonight... but that didn't keep it from stopping for 5 min just before intermish
http://twitter.com/#!/BroadwayGirlNYC

It's the 114th preview, how could they not have figured this out or cut it by now?

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:35pm

Have any details? At some point soon their will be no cast left to perform, if someone else got hurt.

[broadwaydevil]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:35pm

Have any details? At some point soon their will be no cast left to perform, if someone else got hurt.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:38pm

Is this even news at this point?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:42pm

Why were they having an industry only performance?

[shomeika]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:46pm

injury details

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118034262?refCatId=15

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:47pm

To garner insider support?

[dramamama611]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:51pm

shomeika -- THAT injury is from last week. THat is not why the show stopped TONIGHT. We have no info (yet) that there was an injury at all tonight. (And there is already a thread about TV Carpio being out for 2 to 3 weeks.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/22/11 at 10:56pm

The Goblin/Spidery fight continues to be a huge problem, and I'm banking that that's what happened again. But I also understand why they are loathe to cut it, since it's THE highlight of the show when it all works.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 1:59am

Here's a link to that specific tweet: http://twitter.com/BroadwayGirlNYC/status/50372231695577088

[Moneyspider]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 2:41am

At this point, it's more the Gwen Stacy musical

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 2:51am

Moneyspider, I can't believe that I hadn't heard anyone make that terribly incisive joke before.

[Hannahbelle]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 10:53am

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/another-spider-man-actress-injured/?ref=theater

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 11:14am

Once again, that injury is from a week ago, and is being discussed in a different thread. It has nothing to do with the show stopping last night.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 11:15am

Once again, that injury is from a week ago, and is being discussed in a different thread. It has nothing to do with the show stopping last night.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 11:51am

With every new safety measure they implemented it also added in one more safety stop that would essentially shut the system down. Every automation system has several emergency stops built in, some are mechanical triggers as well as the standard manual e-stop. With this system there are so many safeties now built in that it is going to be a fairly common thing for the show to be stopped. Really, the only thing that could be done at this point to lessen those stops, without removing the sequence entirely, is to reduce the complexity of the sequence to avoid some of those e-stop triggers.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 11:58am

So nobody knows why they were having an industry only audience last night?

[dave1606]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 1:28pm

It had to do with their partnership with the SyFy network. I believe this was part of upfronts for the fall season no? They had announced awhile ago that after the upfront presentations there would be a performance of Spidey.

[lmb1009]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 1:49pm

It was the scene where the Green Goblin and Spidey fight. It was my first time seeing the show so I don’t know exactly what was supposed to happen, but I was sitting in the first row of the balcony and it looked like Spidey missed the landing and nearly slid off. There was no injury- they stopped for about five minutes and never actually finished the fight scene.

Updated On: 3/23/11 at 01:49 PM

[lmb1009]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 1:57pm

And yes, the event was the SyFy Upfront

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 1:59pm

It seems to me as if it is always that Goblin vs. Spidey fight scene at the end of Act I that halts the production. Didn't a stop in this exact scene happen a few weeks ago too during the whole Julie Taymor is fired debacle? *sigh*

[willheim2]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 3:27pm

that's the scene that stopped the performance I saw as well.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 3:34pm

They'll get it right, guys. You're all so negative.

[secondarycharacter2]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 3:44pm

I was there for the 99th preview, the night before Julie was fired, and they had to stop at the spidey/goblin fight scene. The whole system shuts down automatically, making it very clear that the only live music is coming from the guitarists downstage right. wah-wah.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 3/23/11 at 4:07pm

You can't judge the show yet, guys. They're still in previews!!