SPIDER-MAN Finds its Pull-Quotes in Reviews!

[BWIDB Charlie]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 5:30pm

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[dramarama3]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 5:49pm

No denying it...they did a pretty good job.

People pay attention to pull-quotes.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 5:55pm

It's like they worked harder at the pull quotes than on the actual show.

When ever I see single words used, I always look up the review. It reeks of "this is all we could get out of the bad review"

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:04pm

So, uh... the reviews are legit now?

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:08pm

I was thinking the same thing themy.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:10pm

LOL

I guess they just aren't UNCOOL enough to use.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:14pm

I am surprised they even found enough Quotes to do this.

[gvendo2005]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:20pm

I stand corrected in my earlier assumption that they couldn't string together one quote from two negative reviews. Apparently, they are the David Merrick of the future.

[themysteriousgrowl]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 6:44pm

I just bought an orchestra ticket for tonight, and now I'm off. God save me.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 2/11/11 at 7:06pm

I can't believe this is real news.

[Sylar2]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 11:52am

It looks like they had someone from Fox News do this since Fox is notorious from taking various unconnected words from people's sentences and turning into a soundbite.

[tazber]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 12:12pm

Oh wow. That is just hilarious.


My favorite:

"Succeeds thunderously! I was riveted." - New York Magazine

Original quote #1: "So that's where things stand with Spider-man, on this February 7. As maximalist camp, it succeeds thunderously. Is that what it intends to be? Irrelevant."

I wonder why they didn't use this one:

But often I was equally transfixed by the palpable offstage imagination willing it all into existence. See, Spider-man isn't really about Spider-man. It's about an artist locked in a death grapple with her subject, a tumultuous relationship between a talented, tormented older woman and a callow young stud. Strip out the $70 million in robotic guywires, Vari-lites, and latex mummery, and you're basically looking at a Tennessee Williams play."

Updated On: 2/12/11 at 12:12 PM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 1:56pm

How did they miss this:
"This show is 100% (crappy)"
Cindy Adams

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 2:18pm

"I just bought an orchestra ticket for tonight, and now I'm off. God save me."


And that's the last post from themysteriousgrowl...

I wonder what happened?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 2:19pm

My thoughts are with his or her family today.

[Moneyspider]

Posted: 2/12/11 at 5:05pm

Spiderman made a deal with the devil to forget his marriage in the comics. Is the creative team behind his musical now doing the same to their audience?

[After Eight]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 8:44am

Let's see. Now they're pulling quotes from reviews that the management said were not valid because the show hadn't officially opened. So does that now invalidate the new so-called opening night? And will there be new reviews after that?

What a tangled (spider) web this all is.

And for a rotten show, to boot.

[Moneyspider]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 10:48am

To be fair, it's a different department doing ads, isn't it? Andin any case, once the reviews are out, you make lemonade out of them. They really might want to consider the Fritz Lang quote for ads in comic books and Wizard magazine.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 12:37pm

You know it's just the ultimate middle finger to the critics.

"You reviewed us early and trashed us. Well guess what, we can still make the average theatre-going tourist think you loved us, so f*** you."

[BroadwayGirl107]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 1:49pm

I still think they should have pulled,

"Blazing new frontiers...venturing where no theater artist has dared to venture before."

from The NY Times.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 2:13pm

Oh honey, please don't give them any ideas.

[Bardolph]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 2:17pm

Well I never....

This has got to be the last straw!! How do they get away with this?!! I've never HEARD of a play, novel, movie or performance of ANY kind pulling critics' quotes out of context and using them to promote said performance!

Let's face it, this show continues to be a big boorish middle finger rudely thrust into the faces of those of us who appreciate REAL theah-ta.

Harumph.





Updated On: 2/13/11 at 02:17 PM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 2:22pm

Ok

[ljay889]

Posted: 2/13/11 at 2:23pm

^ Actually the GREASE revival did it too.