#1476
Posted: 1/22/11 at 11:24am
Yes, Julie confirmed in an interview that she wouldn't be cutting the shoe song, Geek Chorus, or Arachne. But they would be tweaked.
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#1477
Posted: 1/22/11 at 11:26am
Quoth John Adams, "Diiss-gusting."
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#1478
Posted: 1/22/11 at 8:49pm
I just bought tickets again. YEAAAaa!!! It's been two months seen I've seen my favorite train wreck. I have high hopes that the show has fixed some of the major flaws I saw back in December. Fingers Crossed!!!
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Show's I've Seen: 2011: American Idiot, Lombardi, Screwtape Letters, Adams Family, Imaginocean, Phantom - 2010: Spiderman, A Little Night Music, Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, La Cage aux Faux, Next to Normal (twice), Fanny (City Center), Next Fall, - 2009: Finian's Rainbow, Let Me Down Easy, Toxic Avenger, Hair, Mary Stuart, 9 to 5, Avenue Q (a few times), Young Frankenstein, Cry Baby, Applause (City Center), Xanadu, Legally Blond, Glorious Ones, Gutenberg: The Musical, Spring Awakening, Company, Dessa Rose, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Taboo, Altar Boys, Lestat, The Weddings Singer, Hairspray, Spamalot, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, Brooklyn, Urinetown, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, Drowsy Chaperon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Les Miserable, Aida, Great American Trailer Park Musical, Into The Woods, Naked Boys Singing, Cabaret, Last Five Years, Jekyll & Hyde, Corpus Christi, Side Show, Rent (a few times), Footloose, and Ragtime (First Broadway Show I saw).
#1479
Posted: 1/22/11 at 9:14pm
I was watching something on a New York station this past week and, in passing, they mentioned that advanced sales for the show have fallen off.
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
#1480
Posted: 1/22/11 at 10:27pm
I've been hearing this too...I think it was that NY Arts show or something where they mentioned that advance has been decreasing
"Life in theater is give and take...but you need to be ready to give more then you take..."
#1481
Posted: 1/22/11 at 10:31pm
Saw the show today, thought the new finale was great! Yes, the show still has plenty of problems, and I won't comment on them because everyone knows what they are.
I just want to give some love to Matthew James Thomas. He was excellent today, and really gives a great performance as Spider-Man. I have seen Reeve to and he is leagues better. He has a great stage presence and I can see has a great voice, though seemed pretty under the weather.
I just want to give some love to Matthew James Thomas. He was excellent today, and really gives a great performance as Spider-Man. I have seen Reeve to and he is leagues better. He has a great stage presence and I can see has a great voice, though seemed pretty under the weather.
#1482
Posted: 1/23/11 at 12:18am
dave, can you tell us a little bit about the finale? Also, does the fight with Arachne now have anything more than Peter moving her legs around a little bit?
#1483
Posted: 1/23/11 at 12:44am
The finale is Spider-Man (Reeve) flying and looking scared for his life.
#1484
Posted: 1/23/11 at 1:42am
^^ Or Matthew James Thomas flying and looking scared for his life.
Then at the curtain call he popped straight down from the ceiling.
Then at the curtain call he popped straight down from the ceiling.
#1485
Posted: 1/23/11 at 2:24am
dave who is better? Reeve or Matthew James Thomas? I've only seen Matthew James Thomas and thought he was great.
#1486
Posted: 1/23/11 at 1:10pm
Matthew James in my opinion. His voice wasn't the strongest this past Saturday, but I can see the potential. It is obvious he is a trained actor, and because of this has a much stronger stage presence. I didn't think he looked scared, but since it is the first week this has been in the show I could imagine that both of them probably did while doing it. I am not knocking Reeve (I am a fan of his band Carney), as when I saw it he barely had a character, but Matthew is leagues better.
#1487
Posted: 1/23/11 at 1:45pm
Reeve looked like he was having the time of his life swinging around the night I saw it.
#1488
Posted: 1/23/11 at 3:15pm
sorry if this has already been answered, but can someone explain to me why Reeve needs an alternate? I haven't seen the show but from what I read it's my understanding that Reeve doesn't even do that much flying, and I can't imagine it's because the role is vocally strenuous...?
#1489
Posted: 1/23/11 at 4:39pm
You are right. I saw the show and can't figure it out.
When I saw it Xmas Day...his voice was shot about 3/4 of the way through it. SO....I surmize that HE just can't handle it.
When I saw it Xmas Day...his voice was shot about 3/4 of the way through it. SO....I surmize that HE just can't handle it.
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#1490
Posted: 1/24/11 at 1:22pm
Shouldn't we create new subthreads for this category, such as "Spiderman Preview Threat 2011" and "Spiderman Preview Thread 2012"?
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
#1491
Posted: 1/24/11 at 2:10pm
Julie's gonna get a LOT of crap for this one....
"You can do spectacle on Broadway with no book and have a very successful show."
It makes sense... but... yeah.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Taymor_Says_Broadway_Success_Can_Be_Found_in_Spectacle_with_No_Book_20010101
"You can do spectacle on Broadway with no book and have a very successful show."
It makes sense... but... yeah.
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Taymor_Says_Broadway_Success_Can_Be_Found_in_Spectacle_with_No_Book_20010101
#1492
Posted: 1/24/11 at 3:08pm
I love the Freudian "threat." I guess you meant the 2011 "thread" and the "threat" that it will still be running in 2012 with no official opening.
#1493
Posted: 1/24/11 at 3:50pm
Re: why Reeve has an alternate. He said at the stagedoor, "I was only hired to do 6 shows a week. I mean, can anyone really do 8 a week?...with this style of singing, that is."
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
#1494
Posted: 1/24/11 at 4:32pm
Can anyone help me make out lyrics? During "If the World Should End" what is the line that has something to do with Mars? For the life of me, I can not make out what Jenn is singing.
#1495
Posted: 1/28/11 at 12:40pm
Any updates on the ending or any other changes or tweeks being put into place?
#1496
Posted: 1/28/11 at 3:06pm
Kirby,
The original article came from the LA Times. BWW can't even give credit where it's due.
Linky
The original article came from the LA Times. BWW can't even give credit where it's due.
Linky
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#1498
Posted: 1/29/11 at 8:35pm
My two cents-
Attended Thursday night's performance-
technically smooth (no one physically stuck, tangled or injured)
but
plot/book, music/sound, design/"flying effects",
AWFUL
(jumbled/confused, overwhelming/underwhelming, overdone/ underdone)...
My favorite line (but not worth the ticket price)
"I have descended from the astral plane with the help of human shoes."- Arachne
Attended Thursday night's performance-
technically smooth (no one physically stuck, tangled or injured)
but
plot/book, music/sound, design/"flying effects",
AWFUL
(jumbled/confused, overwhelming/underwhelming, overdone/ underdone)...
My favorite line (but not worth the ticket price)
"I have descended from the astral plane with the help of human shoes."- Arachne
#1499
Posted: 1/29/11 at 8:58pm
That's a line? I never heard that line. Well, that explains the atrocious shoe song then.
#1500
Posted: 1/30/11 at 12:31pm
What surprises me most about Spider-man and it's countless foibles is that we're not hearing about dramatic changes despite the extended preview period. I realize a show of this size and complexity would require a lot of rehearsal time to implement changes, and I know how little time they actually have for rehearsal, but still... where is the new second act? Where is the revised score, or at the very least new sound design.
What we are getting instead is a lot of interviews defending what is already being performed with hints to huge changes that don't seem to materialize. AND, comments that the score and even large parts of the book are simply being "tweaked" and not the "overhaul" that early word deems necessary, or warranted by the extended preview period.
I can't wait for the book of Spider-man the musical. I want to read about the process from an inside perspective. I want to know what's truly going on. I'm tired of waiting every Wednesday (the performances after two days off and I assume rehearsal) for someone to write about the "new spectacular second act". What gives?
P.S. I'm still hopeful that Spider-man is going to pull through and become a masterpiece.
What we are getting instead is a lot of interviews defending what is already being performed with hints to huge changes that don't seem to materialize. AND, comments that the score and even large parts of the book are simply being "tweaked" and not the "overhaul" that early word deems necessary, or warranted by the extended preview period.
I can't wait for the book of Spider-man the musical. I want to read about the process from an inside perspective. I want to know what's truly going on. I'm tired of waiting every Wednesday (the performances after two days off and I assume rehearsal) for someone to write about the "new spectacular second act". What gives?
P.S. I'm still hopeful that Spider-man is going to pull through and become a masterpiece.
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