RIALTO CHATTER: SPIDER-MAN Will Swing To Broadway Later Than Planned

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believe it or not..I actually want to see this when it comes out...and i was hoping for a late 2009 opening..guess I will have to wait until 2010, or 2011, or 2012, etc!

i don't get why people hate on shows that not to many people know too much about? so the show has a $31 million budget? good for them hopefully they put the money to good use. if not, oh well. just let the show get together before hating on it first. i want to see this too, let it be 2009, 2010 or however long it takes to put this show together.

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This will either be absolutely brilliant, or make carrie pale in comparison in the world of flops.

I can't imagine how this show would ever recoup. $31 million initial investment (and probably more by the time it opens) and you know it's going to have a huge weekly running cost, it would have to run at full capacity for 3 or 4 years or charge double what the other shows charge at LEAST. I can't imagine it even making it a year.

The show has a set schedule and a set opening date, just nothing announced to the public. Let's just say the load-in time is completely unheard of...

I also look at a 31 mil budget and wonder how it would recoup and wonder what house it would play. They would need a large theatre with a large potential gross to make what would probably be a huge weekly nut.

Even the Beacon would probably be too small both in seating capacity and in backstage space.

Is Time Warner willing to build a new state-of-the-art 2500-3500 seat house in New York? Not cheap.

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good..b/c they will not make the money back within the near future

From the BWW article:

This person added that the high cost of producing the show "has never been an issue because the producers aren't tied to the market." The reasons for the delay, this person said, have to do with still-unresolved creative decisions by a team headed by director Julie Taymor.



Do the producers have their own money tree growing in their backyard? Or their own radioactive spiders spinning webs made of gold instead of silk? Maybe this is all just a huge money-laundering scheme for Bernard Madoff who needs a place to hide tens of millions.

I liked Spider-Man comics years ago and enjoyed the movies. I like the new U2 album. I love musicals. But right now I can't imagine ticket prices for anything costing $42 million (or $31 million or whatever the current multi-millions are) being anything that I'll be willing to spend.