Spiderman Preview Thread! — Page 35

"Hey, we are just middle age suburbanites who choose to spend our entertainment dollars on live performance shows."

LOL. I imagine the voice of Sarah Palin saying those words.

It has(d)? one of the most non-endings I've ever seen. The audience didn't even realize it was over.

It's not salvageable unless they completely rewrite act 2 to make it somewhat coherent.

Updated On: 12/6/10 at 12:45 PM

I don't think you can equate this with Memphis.

No, I don't think that's it.

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Spider-Man makes Memphis look like Angels in America. ...By that I mean, a Pulitzer Worthy Masterpiece.

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Coming from someone who hasn't seen the show, but has been reading some of this board, I can only say, I wanted this show to be good. It had everything in line to be a fun, creative, show, but somewhere along the line, laziness came into play and we have an okay first act with a bad second act. Hopefully they will figure out all of the problems, but I'll probably wait to see it until after opening, and only pay student price. I really want this to turn out to be a good show, though!

"the idea of using existing U2 songs where necessary may be the perfect solution."

Actually, I think the cast should all just drop trou and take a big giant **** on the stage.

It'd be just as effective at this point.

Spiderman's being billed as a new musical. Putting existing songs in it makes it a jukebox show. Cop-out.

And don't bring up American Idiot. The album was conceived as a punk opera from the beginning, with the intent of a movie musical produced by MTV.

Being on another continent doesn't inhibit anyone from composing or tweaking songs during previews, especially with today's communication technology.

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You're so in the know, JulieBoo!

Did no one else read the story in the times from Nov 23 before the first preview?

“Take the ending of the show,” Ms. Taymor explained. “We’re going for what will be an intimate moment, but also one that will reflect some of the technical spectacle, and we will need to figure out how to stage that.”

Bono murmured, “Figure out how to stage that?” He barked out a series of coughs for comic effect: “Nine days!” He coughed. “First preview!” Cough. “Nine days!”

Ms. Taymor said: “Oh, nice of you to say, Bono, you’re out of here in Australia, and we’ll be here strapped with this thing. I’m just gonna drink my martini, man.”

Of course she dropped the intended ending of the show. She did what was quicker and faster until this "visionary" director was given a "vision" on how to stage it . A "vision" that she apparently couldn't have in the YEARS and years of planning, nor during the months and months of rescheduling this $65 million "visionary" project. Have another martini Julie. It'll make all the investors feel much more at ease with the waste of money spent on "developing" your "vision".

according to my math skills, if they had 8 entire performances, they'd have made $1,471,131.20. Not bad. We'll see though!