RIALTO CHATTER: Major SPIDER-MAN Reviews Coming Tomorrow! - Page 3

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 7:45pm

I think sometimes a preview around 10:00 and the full review around midnight. I know I have seen a preview a few times. Correct me if I am wrong.

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:24pm

L.A. Times:

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/LA_Times_on_SPIDERMAN_Incoherence_20110207

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:44pm

Ouch! Can't wait for Brantley's!

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:46pm

I still stand by my thoughts that the show should not be reviewed until they are invited and that a show of this nature with no Out of Town should have had a longer preview anyway, however hearing that very little has changed between first preview and now is frustrating. Some have accused me of defending the show but in reality i never have, ive defended 'A' show that i thought got way to much of a bad rap before it even had first preview and that the shows preview period has been so public (i say this as a producer and a critic), but when so much work could have been done to this show since November has not been then they can't expect good reviews.

It's a shame Taymor has stuck so closely to her vision and ignored the chatter around her and the show.

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:55pm

What bothered me was the review of the performance that Carney's alternate was in. If they are going to do this, then at least review it with all of the lead actors in the show. If one is out, go back until they are all in or just wait for opening night on March 15th.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:56pm

Shows with long preview periods:

1. Nick & Nora
2. Legs Diamond
3. Golden Rainbow

And LET MY PEOPLE COME, which ran for 128 previews (more than any of the ones you mentioned, and still more than SPIDER-MAN is supposed to) before closing without ever officially opening.

http://ibdb.com/show.php?id=5348

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 8:59pm

The UK's 'The Stage' (our version of Variety) has reviewed
http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/31188/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:11pm

Hollywood Reporter reviewed: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/spider-man-review-chaotic-dull-97240

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:23pm

USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/life/theater/reviews/2011-02-08-spiderman08_st_N.htm

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:25pm

USA Today didn't review at all. It seemed it was more a statement of why they WEREN'T publishing a review and that it was 'worth waiting for' than anything.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:27pm

Taymor's knees must be sore from "earning" that "review".

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:28pm

They've lost their grasp of English in England, too? From The Stage review: "what turns out to be 11 Spider-Man’s" (sic)

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 9:51pm

Did I read right? Did USA Today compare Bono and The Edge to Rodgers &Hammerstein? I haven't seen the show or heard the music so I can't comment.

[ucjrdude902]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:02pm

If I was Taymor I'd read the reviews and fix what they are calling flaws. So then when the critics who wait for the opening review it, it looks flawless. She better get to work.

[Yero my Hero]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:08pm

Did USA Today compare Bono and The Edge to Rodgers &Hammerstein?

Rodgers and Hart. And it wasn't a flattering comparison - he basically said the former ripped off the latter.

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:10pm

THE TIMES IS UP!!!


http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/theater/reviews/spiderman-review.html

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:14pm

So keep the fear factor an active part of the show, guys, and stock the Foxwoods gift shops with souvenir crash helmets and T-shirts that say “I saw ‘Spider-Man’ and lived.” Otherwise, a more appropriate slogan would be “I saw ‘Spider-Man’ and slept.”

Bwahahaha

[bwayfan7000]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:18pm

So would the Times Review be considered a mega-pan...?

[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:18pm

Wow...that was actually tame compared to what I was preparing for hahaha still pretty blistering though.

Seriously, Taymor has to be drunk by now, I would be if I was the captain of this ship...wreck

[tazber]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:21pm

Brantely went much easier than I expected too. So far the most negative (and funniest by far) of the ones posted has been the
NY Magazine review.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:21pm

Arg! The page will NOT load for me!

[Annas_Priest]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:24pm

I just don't understand her arrogance. How can she not see that this show need's major changes? She was given the time.. and still has a great deal of time. Why is she doing nothing? Does she really really really think that everyone is just missing her vision and the show is perfect as is?

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:25pm

It's actually full of hilarious stuff:

I would like to acknowledge here that “Spider-Man” doesn’t officially open until March 15; at least that’s the last date I heard. But since this show was looking as if it might settle into being an unending work in progress — with Ms. Taymor playing Michelangelo to her notion of a Sistine Chapel on Broadway — my editors and I decided I might as well check out “Spider-Man” around Monday, the night it was supposed to have opened before its latest postponement.

Often you feel as if you were watching the installation of Christmas windows at a fancy department store. At other times the impression is of being on a soundstage where a music video is being filmed in the early 1980s. (Daniel Ezralow’s choreography is pure vintage MTV.)

Nothing looks truly new, including the much-vaunted flying sequences in which some poor sap is strapped into an all-too-visible harness and hoisted uneasily above the audience. (Aren’t they doing just that across the street in “Mary Poppins”?)

Anyway, there are lots of flat, cardboardish sets, which could easily be recycled for high school productions of “Grease” and “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying,” and giant multipanel video projections (by Kyle Cooper).

And my personal favorite:

They discuss the heady philosophical implications of Spider-Man’s identity while making jokes in which the notion of free will is confused with the plot of the movie “Free Willy".

[Katurian2]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:28pm

OK- does anyone else sense Brantley is having some sort of angsty-young male obsession as his midlife crisis? Didn't he basically write a near literal love letter to Ben Walker earlier this season, and now he's describing Reeve as, "Mr. Carney (looking bewildered and beautiful as Spider-Man and his conflicted alter ego, Peter Parker)."

hahaha

[jv92]

Posted: 2/7/11 at 10:34pm

No surprises here. They could have been meaner for all I care.