Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
#1Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:00am
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
#2Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:06amThere is something vaguely grotesque about the many millions of dollars spent on this. I don't really think that much money should be spent on most things, notwithstanding quality...I'd say the same even if it were a Sondheim musical. But that's probably just my first-world guilt talking.
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#2Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:09amUm, that's not what this thread is about. This is a place of love.
#3Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:10amI LOVE that this closing for a while...hopefully more.
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#4Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:11amBono 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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#5Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:11amDoes anyone know what the budget of BATMAN LIVE! is?
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
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#6Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:12amBATMAN was put on hold because AQUAMAN: TURN ON THE FAUCET has gone over budget.
#7Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:13am
I love that the magic behind Taymor's Spiderman was realized by none other than the visionary himself - Mr. Glenn Beck. Within two months of Taymor's exit, it was announced that Beck's program would be canceled on Fox. Coincidence?
Beck - May you find new love on Broadway - perhaps La Cage before it closes?
Taymor - May you continue to make musicals that only true artists can appreciate - like Glenn himself.
Scratch and claw for every day you're worth!
Make them drag you screaming from life, keep dreaming
You'll live forever here on earth.
#8Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:19am
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
ahhrealmonsters
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/10
#9Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:32amI'm willing to put down money that it never re-opens.
#10Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:34am
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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nomdeplume
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/20/05
#11Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 1:47am
Your cast will tech each and every night
While you're away, don't forget to write
Spidey, so long, farewell
Spidey, so long
See you by September
See you when your book is through
Here we are
Saying goodbye for staycation
Pain's medication
Is taking you away
Have a half-time but remember
There is danger in lost summer cash to some
Will you open by September
Or close due
To someone's broken bum?
#12Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 2:02am
"AQUAMAN: TURN ON THE FAUCET"
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
#13Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 3:36amMaybe now the actors can get some much needed rest? Hook...there are those skeptics out there who feel that this "hiatus" may turn out to be permanent. Thoughts? from RC in Austin, Texas
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
chrisampm2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/26/07
#14Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 5:51amWhy 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.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#15Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 6:22amI liked it more than Promises Promises
#16Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 7:51am
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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#17Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 8:22amI liked the bit with the show curtain. I hope they leave that in at least.
#18Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 11:14am
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.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#19Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 11:15am
Has anyone heard if Julie has reached an agreement?
I think that could be a snafu, but I hear they are def going to open. As far as a rest, forgetaboutit, they go right into rehearsals for SPIDEY2, putting it together in a short time is gonna be hectic to say the least.
#20Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:21pm
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!!
Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco.
Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!
#21Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:28pm
A vision's just a vision if it's only in your head.
If no one gets to see it it's as good as dead.
erinrebecca
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/29/04
#22Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:31pmI'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.
sbflyfan
Broadway Star Joined: 4/12/07
#23Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 12:43pmWow... that Super Laundry Bag woman is what I imagine would happen if Julie Taymor and Yoko Ono had a child together!
"I'm seeing the LuPone in Key West later this week. I'm hoping for great vocals and some sort of insane breakdown..." - BenjaminNicholas2
#24Goodbye, Julie Taymor's SPIDERMAN
Posted: 4/17/11 at 3:46pmDoes anyone know if anybody in the cast of Spider Man won't be continuing with the show after after today's performance?
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