Breaking News: SPIDER-MAN Announces New Creative Team; Delay — Page 2

I heard the following numbers will be added to the show:

"He lives in you"
"Circle of Life"
"Hey, Jude"
"Can You Feel The Love Tonight" (tribute to Taymor)

Updated On: 3/9/11 at 10:20 PM

It's quite fun to see the difference between the people who genuinely dislike the show and the people who are just jumping on the bandwagon.

I am so over this ****.

"Interesting to ponder, but can you be a revival to a show that never opened?"

well Little Shop of Horrors was considered a revival in 2003 and it was the first broadway production...

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havent we heard this before almost word for word...we are making extensive and exciting new major changes to improve the show and as it is so technically advanced a show more time is needed to work it in so this requires an extended preview time....well you know after 5 extensions we dont beleive you this should have been done.....NOBODY puts a show up without an ending that was just a blatant slap in the face to all theatre goers....you want us to pay for your rehearsals and workshops....i thought finally they have come to realze whats wrong and would shut down make it right then open to previews but no they are going to continue to charge 100 140 even 300 bucks for seats while they work on something new now then maybe in june or july we will see it....really so the public will be paying top dollar for something that bono is now goin to strip down and rebuild....why this producer did the same with lord of the rings....just keep workshopping it with a paying audience...this is not about wether the show is good or bad this is about bilking the theatregoers for money so you can get paid while you write a show....and that is the lousiest thing producers could do....

Double post. Sorry.

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Updated On: 3/10/11 at 12:44 PM

No Tony for Spidey. It's too bad they won't get to perform on the Tony Awards.

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They should have been performing on talk shows and releasing clips long ago. At least the new creative team is doing that...

Watching Rise Above made me realize how brilliant Kiss of the Spiderwoman was, achieving a better visual effect a decade ago, with a far more exciting score!

I agree with songandance. Maybe not in the beginning but after things started happening, i would have gotten some other video of the show out there besides the one that shows bits of the show along with the rehearsalsand this 20 second "Rise Above" teaser. And just how well are advance sales doing? It fell to 84.5% last week. As far as talk shows, haven't they already done Today and GMA a while ago? I saw the three leads interviewed on the CBS morning show about a month ago. They can't have them on every week. I think their mistake was thinking the show would sell itself with all of the promise of flying, etc. and even with the problems thought it still would. JMO

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Instead of waiting until mid-April, why don't they just shut down now? Clearly the show isn't what they want it to be, so why continue to sell an unfinished product (after 100 previews)?

Kevin -- because they can't afford NOT to. It's all about the $. They've been saying since NOVEMBER that it's a 65mill dollar investment, although most believe that number has gone up substantially -- between the delays, the new creative team, the fines and now buying Julie out -- no one has heard a new figure, but it must be getting close to 100 mil.

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