Whizzer-
I do believe Broadway should welcome all types.
But for my personal taste..
I feel this is just an overproduced stunt show you see at Six Flags.
Because of it's stale music and book...I can't consider it musical theatre. Just a visual stunt-show tourist trap.
Which I whole heartedly welcome if it is going to keep jobs alive and pump money in NYC's economy.
By all means, buy a t-shirt, buy popcorn...do what you need to do.
just because it resides in a theatre-doesn't mean it's musical theatre.
I think of it as Wintuk- in Madison Square Garden Theatre --- a special event, if you will.
But not musical theatre.
When floppy sets, costumes and "spectacle" swallow up the performers, inlcuding watching more than 1 spiderman fly at the same time from left to right..or seeing stage crew aid performers throughout the whole show-that feeling of enjoying it is gone. Plus the weak music and the book---and eats them alive on stage.....
It doesn't really fit into musical theatre for me.
Sorry. it just doesn't.
I want to leave humming tunes, remembering melodies, i want to run and buy the soundtrack, i want to connect with characters, I want solid memorable performances, I want the actors to reach their notes intended as written..i want to feel for any of the characters,...i want to hope, fear, believe and be moved by the piece..or laugh...or see/hear a story develop.
for all i cared, the performers could've lip-synched and it wouldn't have mattered becuase the audience just wanted to see spectacle because the writing and music wasn't interesting enough to want to experience on its own.
I want to see memorable dance and be inspired by the dancing,
I just think this project fell into the wrong hands..that's all.
again...this is just a preview.
I still hope they make radical changes before opening.
and wish them the best.
Listen, it's gonna sell.
It's gonna make millions.
Millions more than we will ever see in our lives.
Everyone is fine at the end of the day.
just the fact that in less than 24 hours, this thread has received almost 12,000 hits...
means it well sell. people are interested. good or not.
I just think it wouldn't have received so much attention or rage if it hadn't been in a braodway theatre.
If this was at MSG or Randall's Island as an event-
the way cirque du Soleil does their thing-no one would have thought twice about it and all this hoopla would have been avoided.
at the end of the day..
good for NYC economy.
Updated On: 5/13/11 at 10:38 AM