SPIDER-MAN Begins Rehearsal? — Page 2

This is going to be the most amazing thing ever. I'm getting the shakes!!

I walked by the theater today and tourists were looking at the posters laughing and making fun of it.

Kind of sums it up I think.

I am surprised how tight lipped the operation has been, no gens of info has came out, like a leak what the sets are like or music.

I've heard the idea of the stage floor rising in sections to create the facade of buildings (which are then climbed on). Don't know if that rumour is true though.

Once all of this craziness ends, someone needs to write a book chronicling it's demise.

Paging Ken Mandelbaum. It's time for an update on Not Since Carrie.

The early design concepts for the stage was tall skyscraper flats which had windows as light boxes and scrims onto which things could be projected or they could be lit up from behind to create a night time effect.. The would track in tilt sideways and back to create a distorted perspective of looking up. Much like the perspective in the Superman flats. They would also rotate.
Who knows what it will be with the new financing and I assume budget cuts.

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He's the only cast member? Will he play his own instrumnents too?

If John Doyle can get Patti LuPone to play a tuba, he can co-direct with Julie Taymor, right?

He's the only cast member? Will he play his own instrumnents too?

The rest of his band will be part of the orchestra.

Not really Color. To build walls like that and to have them rotate, tilt, lean and pivot as well as track is a pretty big engineering project. That was only one part of the whole design of the set.
We will see if it is happening when it opens. Until then, I would not hold my breath.

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I smell a pullitzer

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Such a joke, and i mean the people on here not the show.

You can tell all the drama queens on here have nothing better to do than bitch and speculate about an industry they are not a part of and have no understanding of how it works other than through messege boards and gossip sites.

Spiderman hit a few bumps along the way, as most shows do. The difference is that because Spiderman is such a huge project etc we are hearing about all the bumps it's had more than we do with the other shows.

The money is in place for the show, the set is going up and rehearsals have begun and yet people on here still bitch.

Why not wait till the show opens before you spew venom?, this show could turn out to be something wonderful, they sure as hell have a decent creative team and the music of U2 as well as a killer budget.

You all need to give it a rest and let the show do what it needs to do to get itself together.

It's such a shame when theatre fans (apparently) are so happy when they are wishing a new show to fail. That's not theatre fans, it's Michael Riedel.

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Ah, songanddance, you could be David Stone in real life and still come off as Dame Pollyanna Happy-go-theatre.

A very good writer once stated that an intelligent gentleman displays a healthy sense of skepticism in the face of foolishness. The published facts of the Spiderman musical do nothing to allay skepticism.

Updated On: 7/21/10 at 10:27 AM

Well of course! Most of the really bitter posts are from industry people.

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