Julie Taymor confirms... — Page 2

This show was born for Vegas. Seriously. If Taymor wants to compare her show to Cirque, then she needs to run it like Cirque. These huge, bombastic Cirque shows out west (Ka cost double as much as Spider-Man) play to packed houses of high rollers ready to shell out $150 for any seat in the house. The casino that houses the show bankrolls the construction of its lavish theatre and keeps the show going. The audiences are looking for spectacle, spectacle, spectacle. When I saw "O" (still one of my favorite theatrical experiences ever), I didn't give a crap who that guy was playing the piano in a clown mask and why those Mongolian acrobats were on a giant lilypad. All I knew is that I couldn't let myself blink for fear of missing another indelible image.

But of course Taymor and Bono wouldn't ever be caught dead working on a Vegas show. That's why it just HAD to be a Broadway musical, and that's why it's so ridiculous to see Taymor backing away from that label now.

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So, first it was performing as a musical while still in previews, but now it's never been a musical at all?

WHOA, dude. I've got to sit down now. That's some trippy **** right there.

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So, would she say the same for THE LION KING? No. Know why? It's successful. SPIDEY ain't. :/

Hey JoeKv99 maybe you could get those "nomadic traders on camels in the Sahara" that "know the story" to explain Act 2 to me, because there is NO STORY to Act 2. Which you would know had you actually seen the show before you thought you would write what, i can only assume, you thought MIGHT be perceived as clever or witty instead of falling flat on it's face as uninformed.
AND BTW people in Haiti do "whine more" about clean water and housing than people paying $300 to get herpes from this musical...oops, not musical....show? rock spectacle? waste of $65 million.

Jimmycurry01 you're right, LOTR did say from the beginning that it wasn't going to be a "conventional musical". Although the word "musical" appears many times in the original playbill announcement.

http://www.playbill.com/news/article/91746-Lord-of-the-Rings-Musical-to-Bow-in-Toronto

But I do recall a major shift in spin once previews started and one of the major issues was the lack of a memorable score.

The truth is that these shows would be better served in Vegas both from an audience point of view and a resource point of view. Having said that, no casino in Vegas would want such lengthy shows. From what people are saying about Act 2 of Turn Off The Dark perhaps the solution is to move it to Vegas and cut Act 2. Actually, it would be pretty cool at New York New York.

quizking: have you even seen Spider-man yet?

Based on the title of this thread, I somehow imagined new lyrics to the Cole Porter Classic "Miss Otis Regrets".

something like

....And from under his Spidey gown,
He screamed "Sh*"t as he tumbled down and down, Julie,
Miss Taymor confirms, we're unable to matinee...

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Updated On: 1/18/11 at 05:12 PM