Actor injured in Spiderman tonight — Page 12

Bitchez be gettin' redundisizied and ****.

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Richard Ouzounian's take:
http://www.thestar.com/article/910597--spider-man-team-treating-people-like-special-effects

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Oh, thank goodness everyone is so worried about safety. I remember that time everyone flipped out and demanded Xanadu be shut down before it opened because the original lead James Capinello fractured his ankle in two places during rehearsal. Or that time you all picketed outside the Sweet Charity revival because poor Christina Applegate broke her leg during the out of town tryout. And then there was the famous Wicked boycott when Kristin Chenowith hit the light descending to the stage on the bubble and needed a neck brace.

You guys are nothing if not consistent in your care for the well-being of actors.

Trent, you're talking about accidents, not something that's an-injury-a-week as this production has been. XANADU didnt require three (now possibly four) visits from the safety inspectors. WICKED didnt have actors performing complicated maneuvers while suspended over a thousand people without any kind of safety net. And, for the life of me, somehow I just cant seem to remember a single scene in PROMISES where someone jumped from the stage to the front balcony rail. Bottom line is, this show has been seriously pushing the safety envelope, more so than any other in Broadway history. And the envelope is starting to rip and tear.

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You guys are nothing if not consistent in your care for the well-being of actors.

Well, duh. Julie Taymor didn't direct any of the shows you mentioned. But yeah, she's responsible for those accidents as well.

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Such scathing satire abounding in this thread. Scathing!

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The "Theatrical Insider" said:

"Look how late into the run of THE LITTLE MERMAID that incident happened to Adrian Bailey. Look at Judy Kuhn in CHESS or Ann Crumb in ASPECTS OF LOVE."

I know about Adrian Bailey and Ann Crumb, but what happened to Judy Kuhn in Chess?

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So much indignation and outrage at the criticism directed at Taymor and the show, so little at the fact that people are getting hurt.

Did you not see the first 11 pages of the thread? And the 8 other Spiderman threads? There was more than enough of the latter to go around.

What's depressing is posters who are more concerned with bashing Julie Taymor and the show than they are with the injured actor.

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Updated On: 12/22/10 at 12:42 AM

According to some local hard hitting reporting on a Los Angeles local news broadcast (ugh...I'm out of town...), a Federal investigation is underway over at "Spider-Man: Please Sign My Cast"!

I'm pretty sure the reporter meant a State investigation is underway -- but that said, if he's right and the Feds have gotten involved...I'm becoming a teabager.

Human error or technical error, it's still the responsibility of the production staff to assure the show is safe for the actors.

Clearly, it is not and has not been a priority for them. That's why Taymor tried to sneak and not show every stunt when the safety board came in saying she "didn't know" they all had to be ready and shown and that's why people are still getting hurt.

Actors have told the press that for many of the stunts that they themselves are responsible for preparing for the stunts... and that there isn't enough backstage help or "time" to assure that there is someone assisting them in this never been done avant-garde work.

They've had years and millions of dollars to make sure everyone involved knows when to fasten someone in. Stop making excuses.

"So much indignation and outrage at the criticism directed at Taymor and the show, so little at the fact that people are getting hurt."

"Did you not see the first 11 pages of the thread? And the 8 other Spiderman threads? There was more than enough of the latter to go around.

What's depressing is posters who are more concerned with bashing Julie Taymor and the show than they are with the injured actor."


Did you not see the first line of my post? I wrote "Odd the priorities among SOME posters here." (Capitals now mine). That means the five or six posters who just go on and on and on about how unfair people are being to Taymor and the show, while showing precious little concern about the people getting hurt. Not only do I find it depressing, but I also find it disgusting.