Bye Bye, Arachne!

Julie must be PISSED! (And not just because she's a woman)

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/EXCLUSIVE_Latest_on_SPIDERMAN_Taymor_Berger_Ensemble_Contracts_20110313

If they really are cutting her, that's a crapload of songs out the window. Rise Above wil no doubt be just Peter or Peter/MJ the 1st time around, as it's just too good a song to lose, but you're losing Behold and Wonder (and that beautiful weaving prologue), Turn Off the Dark (maybe repurposable?), Think Again (too bad), Deeply Furious (thank God) and Love Me or Kill Me.


That's a huge chunk of running time. Sounds like a one act-er for sure. The real losses here are Think Again and the weaving scene. I guess Gobby could sing Think Again, but it would be pretty out of character, and not really sensible. And that prologue... womp womp..

Wait... they are losing the whole central 'theme' to the show, 'And the girl/boy falls from the sky.' What the heck sense is that going to make without the prologue?

For gosh sake's, you're losing Turn Off the Dark! The show's title is going to make even less sense than ever!

This is provoking more questions than the last season of LOST did!

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Updated On: 3/13/11 at 06:36 PM

Not to mention that if a lot of the cast does in fact leave the show, they're going to be screwed with casting and teaching this show to a whole new crop of actors before "opening night".

Honestly, Arachne isn't leaving. They wrote a ****load of songs and their only extended clip of the show features her.

and technically "These changes are said to include much cutting of Julie Taymor's additions to the already rich SPIDER-MAN mythology including both the Geek Chorus, and the character of Arachne" basically means that they are doing alot of reworking, they won't destroy Arachne.

Not because I think the character has importance(which I dont)but because tv will sue if they cut her.

Because characters have NEVER been cut in previews. And I'm sure
the illustrious TV Signal doesn't have that tight of a contract for them to keep her. She'll probably just go back into the chorus.

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Updated On: 3/13/11 at 07:11 PM

Not because I think the character has importance(which I dont)but because tv will sue if they cut her.

If they continue to pay her then she has no say in it.

Hopefully Jen Damiano has the sense to just leave. She's way too talented to associate with this garbage.

I think one of the trickier aspects of this is that it's not her script alone. How can you pull "half a script" when your partner is still employed and under contract?

The lawyers involved much be loving this.

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I actually really like the concept of the Geek Chorus. Hopefully they would offer Miss Arrow back to TV if they can clean up the Geek Chorus material. They could let Alice Lee move to be a swing, and cover MJ.

BTW when I saw it Kristen Martin was on as Miss Arrow and she was pretty good with what she was working with.

^^ Well, it might be EASIER with Julie gone, but I'm not sure that they can do it. Three weeks probably isn't enough time to rework that mess of a show.

So never mind the cutting- and as someone said, they are now advertising the show with an extract featuring a character they plan to remove???- but what about the new material they are introducing?

They are writing, rehearsing, teching enough material to replace this long list of cuts by the end of April???

If it's that easy, why did it take them 9 years first time round?

It just does not add up.

That exposition is one of the best visual moments of the show...

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I agree, I read that as saying they are cuttiing Arachne out. Not that it couldn't be a poorly written sentence, in which case who knows what's going on.