Michael Riedel on CNN... People Actually Being Rational About This Show

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 2:53pm

Despite how crazy I might seem, watch this video. He still has the respect to not officially review the show because it's not open yet. He admits he's seen it, but does not give a review. Just him and the reporters rationally talking about this irrational show.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/12/22/new.york.spiderman.fall/index.html?hpt=Sbin

[Patti LuPone FANatic]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:07pm

Michael Riedel made many valid points. He seems to be more realistic about the show than Julie Taymor and the producers of "Spiderman." from RC in Austin, Texas

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:22pm

Despite how crazy I might seem, watch this video.

"Seem"? I think you're the only one calling that into question.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:32pm

But see, Michael has been against it from the beginning.

Before he even saw it.

So this means nothing except another crazy post from DLMM.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:34pm

He's not talking about the show being bad! He's talking about actor safety! With two people who are not involved with the show!

They should be shut down!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:37pm

The problem with people who have it in for a show before the first preview is that if and when they have legitimate points, their credibility is out the window. Like Riedel and DMM.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:40pm

That makes no sense whatsoever! There is a long list of reasons for people to be against the show. Most of these reasons happened BEFORE the first preview. Technically the first preview should have been February 25th! This is enough cause for people to have hatred towards the show before it's actual first preview.

Riedel speaks rationally with these two reporters on the show. But because he's found other reasons to be against it, nothing he says is credible. That is ridiculous!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:41pm

"That makes no sense whatsoever! There is a long list of reasons for people to be against the show. Most of these reasons happened BEFORE the first preview."

And THAT is what makes no sense whatsoever.

[figaroindy]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:42pm

Not to mention - who cares what Riedel and two people NOT involved in the show say?

I'm sorry, but I think the only people to ask are those who ARE involved (don't really care about Alice Ripley's opinion, either).

And, maybe the question should be "Should the show you're currently in, and which is paying your bills through this Christmas season, and into the future, at the moment, be shut down? Would you like to be unemployed 3 days before Christmas?"

Seriously - all I see on here is the opinion of people who aren't involved - which for me means nothing.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:44pm

And I see DLMM as a crazy person standing on a street corner, yelling to anyone who glances at him that HE MUST BE LISTENED TO, AT ALL COSTS!

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:45pm

"Should the show you're currently in, and which is paying your bills through this Christmas season, and into the future, at the moment, be shut down? Would you like to be unemployed 3 days before Christmas?"

What the hell? What do you do for a living? If you found that it could possibly put you in a hospital or take your life, would you not speak up?

That kind of mentality is disgusting. Scaring actors into thinking that they have to PUT THEIR LIVES AT STAKE to keep a job through the Holidays?!?!?!

BROADWAY SHOULDN'T BE PUTTING PEOPLE'S LIVES IN DANGER. PERIOD!

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:52pm

Then what about all of those people who work on oil rigs, or as police officers, or fire fighters?

YOU MAKE NO SENSE CRAZY MAN!

[wickedfan11]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:54pm

I thought Natalie Mendoza was already back in the show.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 3:54pm

DMM, is your name Michael Beener?

[Fosse76]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:33pm

"Then what about all of those people who work on oil rigs, or as police officers, or fire fighters?"

The comparisons in these Spider-Man threads border on the absurd. The above examples are considered high risk jobs. Performing on Broadway is not.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:35pm

"The comparisons in these Spider-Man threads border on the absurd. The above examples are considered high risk jobs. Performing on Broadway is not."

Thank you. My brand of crazy might be out there, but so is hers.

[jimmycurry01]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:39pm

This is similar to the boy who cried wolf. Riedel has been talking smack from the beginning, now that he has a genuine point to make, I don't really care what he has to say. CNN really should not have gone to a gossip columnist for an opinion.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:44pm

Because everyone else is still supporting Taymor's madness.

Audience members are buying tickets now because they hope to see someone injured during the live performance:

"I’d quite enjoy it if someone would have an injury," she said, not joking. "It would be quite exciting. I’d be on the edge of my seat."

http://www.dnainfo.com/20101222/midtown/spiderman-train-wreck-go-on-despite-actors-injury

Welcome to the new Broadway. Let's just put Broadway actors in cages and find interesting ways to kill them.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:49pm

Riedel is a moron and I can not take anything he says seriously. To say "Kids are buying tickets to this to see Jackass live..." Come on. Any valid points the man has are thrown out the window when he makes childish comments like that. That man disgusts me.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:51pm

Read the article above. And the woman quoted is 38. Everyone wants to see people injured.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:53pm

No, not everyone. People who are sick and twisted want to see people injured (coughMIKERIEDELcough). The way that he joked about someone dying next....its disgusting. I do not wish to see people injured or getting themselves hurt.

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:54pm

You should talk to the press then. Because Kristen did. And she wants someone to get boo boos during the show.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:55pm

"I’d quite enjoy it if someone would have an injury," she said, not joking. "It would be quite exciting. I’d be on the edge of my seat."

You're right! This must be the first time human beings have sought out macabre thrills to quench their sadistic appetites! Julie Taymor is more of a visionary than we thought!

There is simply NO WAY the news could be sensationalizing the events. It just can't happen.

Welcome to the new Broadway. Let's just put Broadway actors in cages and find interesting ways to kill them.

I hope you had a glad rag handy when you typed that.

[wendilin622]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:55pm

Who the heck is Kristen?

[Disneyland Magic Man]

Posted: 12/22/10 at 4:57pm

The woman going on record saying:

"I’d quite enjoy it if someone would have an injury," she said, not joking. "It would be quite exciting. I’d be on the edge of my seat."