"Parker looks the part and acts fine-ish but doesn't sound like Bono which sould've been a requirement."
Really? It should be a REQUIREMENT that they sound like Bono. I find that slightly ridiculous. Just because Bono wrote the music does not mean the person singing it in the show needs to sound exactly like Bono.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
Does anyone know if Bono and The Edge are now back in New York working on new material? My understanding is that they were coming back here after their tour and before their next one. I am curious if any new music has been integrated, yet.
Hot Feet- that piece of garbage!? That was the first- and so far the only, show that I ever bought a T shirt for- and returned after the show!! I just HOPE that no matter how.....imperfect Spiderman may be, it could never be as awful as this case of staged athletes foot!
It was a mess, but I had to see it because I am a huge Earth, Wind & Fire fan from way back. The vocalistsmusic were the only good thing about the show.
HA! So you all are saying I shouldn't pursue a career as a professional theater critic? DARN!
You guys make very good points. Although I warned you my post was disjointed (I don't really proof message board posts), you are right in that I never said what I liked about the show - I'll save those parts for you guys to enjoy when/if you see the it.
I also laughed in re-reading what I posted and I did make it sound like all the stunts were happening in my face - not the case at all, but in looking back it felt like that.
I did totally forget about the Chrystler Building at the end of act one, but I knew it was coming and the whole sequence was very slow - I'm assuming due to the new safety measures.
As for what I said about finding people who sound like Bono, I don't expect people who sing Stephen Sondheim to sound like Stephen Sondheim, but he's focused his entire career on writing music for others to perform. This is exactly the opposite for Bono and Edge. They've collaborated with many, many artists to varying degrees of success and I've heard some good U2 covers out there, but for the most part, the music they write (or that U2 writes) only sounds good when they're performing it. But that is totally just my opinion and also my reasoning for why the music in the show didn't work for me.
I also do still think that there were some awkwardly sexual lyrics - even though I didn't think the dream "sex" sequence was awkward at all and was one of my favorite moments.
Also thank you for the name corrections - I thought that looked weird.
No, the characters should NOT sound like Bono or the Edge or U2 or anybody else, as a matter of fact. That's the silliest thing I've read on this board in a long time.
The characters should sound like...the characters.
But I think this is what happens when you get someone like Bono to write a Broadway score. He's gonna write it like a U2 song, which means he'll write it as though *he*'s performing it. Watch that rehearsal clip that was part of the 60 Minutes piece. When Bono sings one of the songs, everyone in the room is like, "Yeah, that's what it should sound like!"
I think the point that glindjr. Is making ( and it's a valid one ) is that Bono writes the kind of songs that sound good only when they're sung by Bono. Certainly, on the 60 minutes special, the songs only really came alive when he sung them.
Behind the fake tinsel of Broadway is real tinsel.
I'm not sure it would take a singer that sounds like Bono to make those songs work better, but I'm thinking someone with a more powerful voice would have been a better fit. I like what I've heard of Reeve, but I can't help but wonder how much stronger the songs would come across with a rock-tinged belter singing them. Reeve sounds like a better fit for that Emo-rock musical closing a few blocks away than the more mainstream rock of Bono and The Edge. His voice is a bit too...light? Soft? Delicate? I'm not trying to insult his singing, either; I like it. There's a great tone to it and he works it well. It just seems at odds with the chunks of the score I've heard.
Reeve Carney is the lead singer of a band no one knows about. The only reason they may now is because of this pile of crap, not because of any of their own music.
Some people were never meant to grace a Broadway stage.
Some people are also just not talented enough, period.
Can someone get Disney land magic or whatever the hell his name is and strap him into a harness and let him fly around the Foxwood for a bit...and leave him there...
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
I have a compromise suggestion... Perhaps, Disneyland Magic Man can open his own thread and post all of his thoughts there - and only there. If anyone cares to read his opinion, they can visit the DMM Spider-man thread.
The cast of "Spring Awakening" didn't sound like Duncan Sheik and they rocked the music he wrote which is nothing like we are used to hearing from him. And they didn't "sound" or sing like him.
Well, I got to see the show as a X-mas present to myself -- some gift. Actually, it's not too bad if you arent't deterred by an incomprehensible book, lousy music, amateurish performances, ugly costumes, cardboard sets that were wobbling all over the place, non-direction. Oh, yes, and the aerial effects -- not since I was a kid seeing his first circus by a fourth-rate touring group was I so impressed. But, as Barnum said . . . .
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
Stopped twice last night, and there were a couple of little heckles.
This show is seriously confused in its direction. "Pull the trigger" and the shoe song should really go. I loved the typists but they were so out of place stylistically, as was "I'll take Manhattan", as funny as it was.
So, obviously ya do care :) 
