Sexism defeats Taymor

Enough! Enough! Enough!!! Taymor is being dragged through the streets, ridiculed and berated like a woman during the Salem witch trials. Disgusting. The show is not great but what is the major fault- the #$@$%#@$ excuse for music. Bono and the Edge have produced the worst score in all my years of seeing shows and people who want to be current and cool are excusing it by heaping all the blame on Taymor. AND NOW,Bono is playing the white knight- out to save the show????!!!! Give me a break! Bring in a composer and a lyricist and MAYBE just MAYBE the show has a chance. Poor Taymor has learned that the theatre and certainly rock music is a nasty boy's club and she has been tossed out of the tree-house for the boys to play their games. What is called Taymor's hubris would have been called visionary in a man!! Out with Bono and the Edge- no talent. They make NOISE not music.

Or maybe, just maybe, she's a sh*tty director who kept needing MORE money to flush down her toilet while making no changes to her giant heap of trash called Spider-Man?

Just because she IS a woman does not mean this is BECAUSE she is a woman.

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How about that ****ty first act and the non-existent second act? The story that was written as a Greek drama By Taymor? It doesn't have a story. You have a villain who gave the super hero his powers... WHAT!?

Shrek had changes and opened. Something Spider-Man has been unable to do with 4 months of previews and three delays (SO FAR!).

Why, this is almost as sexist as that production of The Importance of Being Earnest next door! You could picket BOTH at the same time- kill two birds with one stone.

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How dare he let Taymor do whatever she wanted!

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What does this have to do with Earnest??? How are they related. Beacuse he won 22 Grammies means nothing. He can't write theatre music. He can write character songs. He can't wrote complexities. He writes noise that dumb people who don't know from talent think is good. Its for the aging geeks who still want to be thought of as cool. They have NO TALENT in terms of writing for the theatre. You see better at a college variety show!!!!

He writes noise that dumb people who don't know from talent think is good.

So people who have a different opinion on music and musicians from you are dumb? That's a pretty narrow minded thing to say.

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But we do know she isn't being dragged through the streets.

DANG! Now THAT I'd pay good money for(* *)
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Just because the score is terrible doesn't absolve the book from blame. In fact, they're both terrible, and Bono, the Edge, and Taymor all share the blame, and there's plenty of it.

Still, I feel sorry for Taymor. She is a person of talent, but she went awry here, and her own stubborness did the show in.

Yet, one can't help but empathize with a person who spent so much time and effort in a project, only to be let go.

Some of the score is quite good (Boy Falls From The Sky, Rise Above), most is adequate, if boring, and some is awful.

Taymor's STORY, book, new characters on the other hand are ALL TERRIBLE.

And what's worse is she REFUSED to make necessary changes or accept any help.

How you can say this is Bono and Edge's fault and Taymor's being wronged is beyond me.

From what I've heard of the score, Bono and the Edge don't have a innate knack for writing for the theater. If they'd bothered to regularly attend the previews, maybe they would have gotten a better feel for both how Taymor was doing as a director and how their own contributions could be improved. But they didn't.

The combination of three massive egos and a lot of other people's money led to this mess. Taymor's at fault, but so are Bono and the Edge.

what a burn.