Spiderman Preview Thread!- Page 26

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:50am

Pretty much what I was expecting. Crappy score and story with great visuals. Good to know the show is moving smoother just two days after the messy first preview. I'm excited to see it in 2 weeks.

The sad thing is knowing there really won't be any changes to the score or the book. How do you do rewrites on a show that has taken so long just to get to this stage? Pity.

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:51am

"How do you do rewrites on a show that has taken so long just to get to this stage?"

How do you get to this stage and not realize yet that your book/score sucks?

[Broadway Joe]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:55am

"How do you get to this stage and not realize yet that your book/score sucks?"

Exactly. There must have been too many yes-men/women who were too afraid to tell taymor and u2 the truth.
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[fingerlakessinger]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:56am

That is true...they have had such a long time to get a coherent story together and make a solid, enjoyable score. They have had 7 or 8 years...the tech stuff should have come after getting the basics down

[kissynose]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 1:02am

Like I said the show has some life. However,all the theater snobs have prejudged this show already. Its doomed. I like to compare it to Patti Lapone either you like it or hate it. One is a money pit the other is just the pits.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 1:10am

They should have realized long ago that they were lacking, obviously. All I meant was that it's too bad that this is pretty much the finished product.

[helloworld2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 1:34am

Perhaps this is a stupid question - forgive me if there's some kind of obvious answer - but why can't they bring in someone else to work on the music and/or book, either as a ghostwriter or as a collaborator?

[CockeyedOptimist2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 1:38am

^Ego.

Also a projected opening date in about a month would be not long to find a writer/composer and throw them into fixing up the book and score. Especially the score- you'd probably end up with some strange mixture of styles. Maybe just someone to help with the lyrics.

[Brick]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 1:51am

And I can imagine there is a deceptive simplicity to comic books that could trick one into adapting them into a treatment thin, silly or dull. What Taymor could have intended to be simple and resonant could just be simple and boring, though beautiful.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 4:33am

I don't think too many of the twitter posts sound like they are coming from Theater Snobs. And even if they were, there aren't enough of them to be able to "doom" this or any other show.

How horrible for a musical to be totally disliked for it's music (as this seems to be the most consistent criticism).

That being said, there is still no way to know whether or not this will succeed. As we know, a show being of high quality has little to do with financial success. It could suck and still bring in audiences.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 8:06am

http://www.whatsonstage.com/blog/theatre/northwest/E8831291225292/Spiderman%3A+Turn+Off+The+Press.html

[tazber]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 8:12am

"However I feel I want to jump in and defend the show, even without seeing it."

That kind of makes him hard to take seriously.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 8:47am

Not really, its defending the act of previews and negativity springing from 1 preview, i don'y have to see it to express an opinion on a product that it is getting so much negativity from the press after 1 preview.

[ALittlePriest]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 9:24am

The most consistent criticisms have been towards the boring and incoherent story, not the music. Some of the music is ok, like maybe one half of a song.

[firescape]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 10:00am

Here is a review of the second performance from an audience perspective

http://hollisst.tumblr.com/

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 10:37am

She evidentally didn't realize that the music wasn't by U2 except the one song.

[billynj]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 11:11am

They got the yes men/woman from Michael Jackson, there must be a special place to hire people who dont voice their opinion

[zerose]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 11:19am

Gideon Glick plays Jimmy-6, one of the "Geek Chorus" kids who are throwing together the ultimate Spider-Man story. He's cute in this too. Too bad the whole "Geek Chorus" framing device is really annoying.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 11:31am

I had no clue Gideon was in this until I saw the stagedoor pictures. Loved him in Spring Awakening.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 11:51am

Surely it would have been sensible to release a concept album by U2 to build word of mouth and a fanbase?

They might also have noticed that the score needed work.

[jeffmiele]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:12pm

Has anyone sat in the boxes for this show or another show at this theater.. How are they?

[SNAFU]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:17pm

Julie is not one to listen to constructive criticisms of her visions. She gets that glazed over far away look and just piles on the rhetoric. Most people fall into that spell and agree with her rather then seem unenlightened. Seen it happen many times.

[justafan2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:19pm

I'm still trying to decide if this show is worth seeing. Hopefully, as the previews progress, it'll improve. I was of the same impression that Bono and the Edge wrote the entire score. I'm disappointed that they didn't (altho' not every piece of music that they write is great or even good, but when they hit it right---it's great)----please keep posting opinions---I'm reading each one!

[Katurian2]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:21pm

devonian- I brought up the same thought a few months back. It seems like Bono and the Edge is doing the bare minimum to promote this show, when so much and so many people are invested in it. A concept album would have been brilliant to release about 6 months ago. It's so unfortunate the PR has been such a mess that this didn't happen.

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 12/2/10 at 12:25pm

Bono and The Edge DID write the whole score, or at least officially. I don't know what that asterisk thing is about. Maybe it has something to do with Boy Falls From the Sky being the only song that U2 performs, or that might be a single?