Spider-Man confirms IDOL performance

[scott68]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 1:19pm

Interesting. This is pretty big, isn't it? The only comparable thing I can think of in recent memory would be American Idiot on the Grammys with Green Day.

http://twitter.com/#!/SpideyOnBway/status/73052347659595777

"Daily Bugle Alert: Bono, The Edge & Reeve Carney perform song from SPIDER-MAN on the season finale of AMERICAN IDOL – Wed @ 8PM EST on Fox!"

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 1:44pm

Just when I thought this season of IDOL couldn't get any worse.

[kyl3fong2]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 2:17pm

Is it only Reeve Carney and Bono and The Edge singing on Idol tomorrow? Cause I heard that they are performing "Rise Above" which heavily features T.V. Carpio...

[rorschach37]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 3:48pm

If it's just Bono, Edge, and Reeve I think they'll be performing "Boy Falls From the Sky"

[IdinaBellFoster]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 3:58pm

So we won't understand any of the lyrics...again.

But hey, the song is just as bland as the final two, so it's a fitting performance.

Updated On: 5/24/11 at 03:58 PM

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:12pm

I can't believe they're not going to perform Bullying by Numbers!!

[Baileyboo]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:35pm

They are doing "Rise Above". They should get a very nice sales bump from this appearance, I would imagine.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:37pm

Will you be there a well or are you stuck performing at The Foxwoods that night?

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:39pm

The only song from this show that would make me consider buying a ticket is Boy Falls From the Sky. At least from how they are performed in the show.

[Bardolph]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:51pm

"Interesting. This is pretty big, isn't it? The only comparable thing I can think of in recent memory would be American Idiot on the Grammys with Green Day."

Yes, it's big. It's very big. The Grammys typically draw about 15 million viewers. The American Idol finale will likely draw over 40 million.

If Spidey 2.0 is as good as everyone is saying it is, this could bump it into self-powering orbit.

I'm betting they do Rise Above. It's easily the best song from the show and it's a song that requires a bit of familiarity in order to really fall in love with it. Doing that song would help the show the most.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:55pm

"If Spidey 2.0 is as good as everyone is saying it is, this could bump it into self-powering orbit."

Sorry, but who exactly is saying it's good? It's a boring, cheap looking production that while not as campy as "1.0" is still every bit as bad. I don't recall the majority of people saying anything different than that. Let's not try to "rewrite" opinions of it.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 4:56pm

It still sucks it's just comprehensible now. The music certainly didn't get any better.
Updated On: 5/24/11 at 04:56 PM

[denali.fire]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 5:17pm

I'm betting someone gets hurt during the show. Certainly would be appropriate for Boy who Fell from the Sky. .

DF

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 5:19pm

and I'm betting they'll be just fine standing on a stage singing.

[Bardolph]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 5:37pm

"Sorry, but who exactly is saying it's good? It's a boring, cheap looking production that while not as campy as "1.0" is still every bit as bad. I don't recall the majority of people saying anything different than that. Let's not try to "rewrite" opinions of it."

*L* Yes, we know Jordan. You've appointed yourself to be Spider-man's official internet nemesis. You've been hammering this show with good points and bad for months.

The truth is that the show is now getting regular standing ovations, the cast and crew are on top of the word and feel very confident about where it's going, and I know at least one critic who wrote a searing review of 1.0 who suggested in a conversation I had with him that his 2nd review would be "quite different."

There's also this:
https://www.kansascity.com/2011/05/21/2892683/robert-trussell-broadways-spider.html

More importantly, I would say that 75% of the people I've spoken to who have seen the new show (I haven't yet seen 2.0), genuinely enjoyed it. Most enthusiastically so.

So hammer on, Jo Jo. This show is here to stay. Whether you like it or not.

[egghumor]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 5:39pm

Let me preface this next statement by saying I'm a huge U2 fan, own ALL their CDs, etc.

If there was ever a musical anthem that sounded terminally stick-in-the-mud to me, it's "Rise Above."

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 6:48pm

Oh shut the hell up, Bardolph. I'm hardly an "internet nemesis", I speak my opinion about it just like everyone else is allowed to do. You say I've been hammering this show with good points and bad for months. How does that make me a nemesis, exactly?

And your saying that since the show is receiving standing ovations it must be great is a bit flawed since everything receives standing ovations nowadays. Everything. And I'm glad a paper in Kansas City had positive things to say. I can absolutely guarantee you that the press that matters won't agree come opening night. And I'm not "hammering on" about anything, but simply addressing your moronic post aimed at me.

Lastly, I could care less if the show stayed around or not. It employs a lot of hard working New York actors which is great. But please don't pretend the show is anything but a cheap tourist trap aimed not at creating art, but to simply get people to fork over their cash.
Updated On: 5/24/11 at 06:48 PM

[trentsketch]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 7:01pm

Standing ovations are the bastion of quality now? I've seen many bad shows getting standing ovations including Baby It's You, Wonderland, All Shook Up, Good Vibrations, In My Life, and performances of Rent where the whole cast broke character, flubbed lines, and just generally screwed around onstage. I've also seen heinous high school productions where you couldn't hear any of the singers get standing ovations, too.

If Spider-Man is now middle of the road entertainment, does that make it better than when it was so bizarre it went over a lot of people's heads? Is a blockbuster film automatically great because it sells tickets and people like the explosions? Better from 1.0 does not mean good by any stretch of the imagination. The score lost what, two songs? And only one of them was atrocious (Deeply Furious). And they moved a couple songs around, made that great Mary Jane song a duet, and sped up Rise Above a bit at the end? Did moving the guitars off the stage make that big a difference to the sound quality?

Seriously. It's supposed to be a Broadway show. No one should be required to like it because it improved. The "OMG everyone says it's better shut up meanie" people are sounding like Patti "every new musical deserves critical support because it's new" LuPone right now and it's even more laughable in this context. At least Women on the Verge managed to open on schedule and present something moderately watchable the first time around.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 5/24/11 at 7:40pm

I just saw it Saturday night and it received a scattered standing O. Most people just looked befuddled.
And I have no doubt that more people are walking away at least enjoying the visuals now that the story isn't such a mess. But the music is still really, really, really bad.
Updated On: 5/24/11 at 07:40 PM