Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN

Audiences will view the visionary director's visionary vision of SPIDERMAN one last time tomorrow before the vision is re envisioned by a new visionary.

Please use this thread as a place to reflect, to mourn, to heal on your experience. Thank you Miss Taymor for everything you've done. You've created something we will talk about for years. You truly are something.

Updated On: 4/17/11 at 12:00 AM

Um, that's not what this thread is about. This is a place of love.

Bono and The Edge are fantastic songwriters, and I think they got the balance of rock/pop song to Broadway song just right. My best wishes for the future of the show, really!

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BATMAN was put on hold because AQUAMAN: TURN ON THE FAUCET has gone over budget.

CapnHook, from what I've seen of Batman Live shots, it looks like the inflatable set of Cats.

The Robin's cute though.
Batman Live

But the producers have already put a lot of money down to ensure that it does! Can you match that, ahhrealmonsters?

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"AQUAMAN: TURN ON THE FAUCET"

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Why would a show making well over a million dollars a week and near its nut, well after the reviews came out, not reopen? It's not as if the producers have ever said we hang our heads in shame at this unfixable wreck and so out of deference to good taste will close despite abiding audience interest.

I really wish I could've seen it before it closed for changes.
I also hope when it opens and people realize that it's safe now and no ones going to suddenly drop from the sky durring their performance it will close.

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In future years this will be seen as an epic piece of genius on the scale of stravinski's rite of spring, which was initially met with riots, and now is seen as the seminal piece that ushered in twentieth century composition, which broke the hold of classicism.

One day the incredible depth of Bono and taymor's genius will be studied as that moment in popular culture where a new age of theatrical expression flowered for the first time, only to wilt at first rush from the unrelenting and savage blows by the witless critics and viewers who just wanted more of the same in their mindless search for empty headed escapism.

I will cherish in my heart and soul every nuance of the performance I saw on January 2nd.....forever.

So I just got back from the rush line and will be seeing Julie's vision for the fourth and final time today, but the craziest thing is the out of control woman working the line this morning to drum up Spiderman morale. She was dressed in a red body suit with black leggings and a Spiderman show t-shirt over it. She later put a black mask on to pull it all together!

She walked up and down the line teaching so all the Spiderman theme song in case there was a glitch during the show and we needed to entertain the audience! She stopped random tourists walking by the theater telling them to go see the show and not to listen to the reviews. People were asking her all sorts of info on tickets, rush etc and she knew every answer.

The best best best part was she told some of us to look her up on youtube under Super Laundry Bag. Sure enough we whipped out our blackberries and i-pads and began to watch. She has filmed over 50 episodes of her web series that are truly bizarre. I'll post a few here, but you MUST check them out. You hear the expression "Only in New York," a lot, but in this case it really is true.

Episode 45: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTO0GQv4-t4

Episode 21: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7OvpPfQyvs

Episode 22: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyo8AAvFZqw&feature=related

It's all a good laugh so enjoy!!

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I'm sad for those who are losing their jobs and not continuing on with SpiderMan II. As for a rest? There is no rest for the wicked or for the weary. They're back in rehearsals tomorrow at 10 a.m.

Does anyone know if anybody in the cast of Spider Man won't be continuing with the show after after today's performance?