Does anyone actually talk about the previews anymore? It seems to me that no one on this board has actually seen the show for weeks.
I saw the show last night and have to say, they have changed a good deal since the last time I saw it in early February. Was it ready for a March 15th opening? God no. Has it improved? Kind of.
First of all there were two big glitches. Goblin's steering mechanism failed and they stopped him flying after two rounds above the audience. Patrick Page did some cute ad-libbing, but the show halted for a good five minutes. (it was incorrectly reported on here that the show was canceled.)
The announced that they were going to have skip to the end of the scene because the flying was a safety issue.Really pretty disappointing as anyone knows that is one of the highlights of the show.
They have definitely revamped the Geek Chorus. They have a few better jokes, and some clarifying dialogue that helps things make sense.
Uncle Ben's death is clearer, though I would still like to see that relationship expanded. Still, this is an improvement.
The dialogue explaining arachne with some rear projections seemed new to me. I think her story at least makes more sense, though she still seems very disjointed with the rest of the spider-man story.
The ugly pageant at the beginning of the second act has been completely revamped. It is no longer really an contest, just more of a montage explaining how busy Spidey is balances work, school, family/MJ, and being Spidey.
Arachne now has a huge monologue at the beginning of deeply furious explaining her intentions and a *SPOILER alert wedding scene between Spidey and Arachne! Yes, that's right, they have managed to make deeply furious even campier.
I noticed some re-orchestrations of both Boy falls from the sky-new lyrics along with the song being completely re-staged.
Walk away also has a new bridge in it that I really liked.
The ending reprise of Rise Above has a few new choruses, and they awkwardly slow it down at the end.
Still, overall some improvements though not a masterpiece. Definitely needs be have the second act re-written though.
Updated On: 3/10/11 at 01:01 PM
