Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after "revamp.")

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after "revamp.")#1

Posted: 5/12/11 at 2:09am

This is like deja vu all over again. Can't wait to hear reports.

I can't imagine it could have gotten any worse....

[Famebroadway2]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#2

Posted: 5/12/11 at 8:11am

I really hope its good. For some unknown reason I am pulling for this show to come back and really deliver something great.

That being said, I will NOT buy another ticket to see it unless the reports are good. I spent way to much money this year on bad theater including Spiderman 1.0...

[Brian07663NJ]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#2

Posted: 5/12/11 at 8:13am

I will be there. I hope I don't regret the decision...hahha

I keep thinking about when I walk my dog...whether it is one 'log' or in several 'nuggets', it is still the same.

Eager to find that I am wrong and this is the most amazing resurrection since 33AD

[justafan2]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#3

Posted: 5/12/11 at 8:13am

I'm really looking forward to hearing the reviews. I already bought tix for July. I actually enjoyed the first act of the show before they closed. We'll see.

[bmwpjager]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#4

Posted: 5/12/11 at 8:48am

According to Playbill:

"The Myth of Arachne," (New Song, replacing Splash Page)
"Behold and Wonder,"
"Bullying by Numbers,"
"No More,"
"D.I.Y. World,"
"Bouncing Off the Walls,"
"Rise Above,"
"Pull the Trigger,"
"Picture This,"
"A Freak Like Me," (New song, Green Goblin?)
"If the World Should End," (In Act One? This seems odd...)
"Sinistereo," (Moved Earlier)
"Spider-Man!," (Replacing SpiderMan Rising?)
"Turn Off the Dark,"
"I Just Can't Walk Away,"
"Think Again,"
"The Boy Falls From the Sky,"
"I'll Take Manhattan" (Moved)
"Finale – A New Dawn." (New Song)

So, at least they definately cut Deeply Furious, and I'm so happy they're keeping Turn Off The Dark. Perhaps they're leaving Arachnae as osmething of a villain and having her team up wih Goblin? Or maybe she's an additional love interest? Or just Madame Webb esque...

[somethingwicked]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#5

Posted: 5/12/11 at 8:53am

The story in the Times about all the changes said that Arachne is now a "guardian angel figure" for Peter Parker instead of a villain.

Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.

[Testing1232]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#6

Posted: 5/12/11 at 9:09am

I will be there...

[steven22]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#7

Posted: 5/12/11 at 9:16am

Cannot wait to hear about this...

[steven22]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#8

Posted: 5/12/11 at 9:18am

Looks like America Olivo (Arachne u/s) has left the cast and Megan Lewis has replaced her. Joey Taranto (from Rock of Ages) has also joined the cast as a swing.

[justafan2]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#9

Posted: 5/12/11 at 9:27am

Have any of the Geek Chorus been kept on as swings or chorus?

[steven22]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#10

Posted: 5/12/11 at 10:40am

Nope..sad because Alice Lee and Gideon Glick are great..Don't know the other Geek Chorus as well.

[Annas_Priest]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#11

Posted: 5/12/11 at 10:50am

It's a shame that they could not keep the members of the g(r)eek chorus and put them in other roles... even if it was just in the chorus... Such a shame. It's not their fault that some of the original creative team was on an ego trip...

[sally1112]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#12

Posted: 5/12/11 at 11:46am

I saw this show over Spring Break and thought it was better than most people said, but not nearly as good as it could have been with the talent they had on stage (Love Jennifer)
I wish I could afford to go back and see all the changes. Hopefully they made this show as good as it had the potential to be.

[jeffmiele]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#13

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:20pm

it stinks for the geek chorus for being written out but they're being taken care of very well.. they're being paid through November

[shaydedenigma]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#14

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:38pm

Yeah I saw the Spiderman 1.0 back in December and I absolutely hated it for the most part because of story structure and some of the music....but there were still elements in the show that was just awesome theatre. I'm a little weary that Arachne is still included in the show but hopefully her storline is reined back a bit as the Times said she's a guardian angel now....so we shall see...I'm definitely seeing it again though

[Michael Bennett]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#15

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:48pm

I'm seeing this tomorrow - (I really did half expect tonight's performance to be cancelled - it is after all a tradition).

Since I know people were asking, they have indeed (as of today) taken down the posters outside the theatre listing Julie Taymor and Glen Berger.

[uncageg]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#16

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:54pm

Is her name still on the big banner? I looked about a week ago and it still was. I wanted to walk by last night but I was over the crowd in Times Square and cut over to 8th.

Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder

[Michael Bennett]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#17

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:59pm

The big billboard over the theatre still has Taymor's name on it. I imagine that will change shortly.

[theatreguy]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#18

Posted: 5/12/11 at 12:59pm

Patrick Healy has the new title page in the Times today:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/12/a-web-of-spider-man-credits/?ref=theater

Philip Wm. McKinley is billed as "Creative Consultant." Julie Taymor gets "Original Direction by" and is still billed as an author of the book along with Glen Berger and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

[WhizzerMarvin]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#19

Posted: 5/12/11 at 1:03pm

I'll be there tonight! Can't wait to see what they did with the time off.

Marie: Don't be in such a hurry about that pretty little chippy in Frisco. Tony: Eh, she's a no chip!

[Anakela]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#20

Posted: 5/12/11 at 1:08pm

I'm no longer seeing it tonight, but when I was dropping my ticket off at the box office this morning noticed two things:

1- for those who are curious, they are still doing their rush; $30, cash only
2- people on line were being interviewed; didn't catch for which publication though

[shrekster224]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#21

Posted: 5/12/11 at 2:49pm

Maybe the new song "Freak Like Me" is Arachne's, as it was a lyric in Deeply Furious. And I'm guessing they moved "I'll Take Manhattan" to the end so that there is more of a Green Goblin focus throughout

[Scarywarhol]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#22

Posted: 5/12/11 at 3:11pm

So, I guess the big Spidey-Goblin fight is the show's finale now...

[bwayphreak234]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#23

Posted: 5/12/11 at 3:58pm

I am sooooo excited for the reviews. I'm glad they are keeping most of Arachne's songs. I will be seeing this in July so I'm excited!!

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[TheatreFan4]

Is anyone seeing SPIDER-MAN tonight? (First show back after 'revamp.')#24

Posted: 5/12/11 at 4:22pm

Hope I'm able to see this!