so even after it opens tonight Spiderman still will technically not be frozen?

[thismyshow]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 5:32am

I say this after reading the following quote in a NY Times article

"Even now, Bono and the Edge said, the musical is just 90 percent complete, with a final 10 percent of work — in their view, chiefly involving the relationship between Peter Parker and the villain, the Green Goblin — to be done this summer."

ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME!

full article http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/theater/bono-and-the-edge-explain-spider-man-back-story.html?_r=1&src=tptw

[AvenueQResident]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 5:40am

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 6:22am

So Bono will invest in The Spotted Pig, but not his own show? Odd.

[devonian.t]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 8:19am

Well if they think it's not ready, surely they should not be allowing the critics back- it wouldn't be fair...

[uncageg]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:00am

In my opinion, at this point he is just making excuses. Weren't Bono and the Edge around during the show's down time?

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:14am

Wasn't there just a big article about how the show is now frozen?

Edit - Here it is
http://www.playbill.com/news/article/151632-Spider-Man-Turn-Off-the-Dark-Is-Frozen-No-Empire-State-Building-Set-Change-Planned Updated On: 6/14/11 at 10:14 AM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:19am

For all that work, Bono added, he felt artistically “impotent” at times and did not love the show until a preview performance late last month.

God almighty. The picture accompanying that Times article makes them look like teeny tiny midgets in way over their heads. Impotent is the word. I thought they both came off like dix on the Tonys, usually I find The Edge leavens Bono's Bononess, but not that night. They should have known from the very beginning, when Larry and Adam laughed the notion of recording the songs as U2 ("That's more of a Bono and Edge thing," I recall them telling Rolling Stone) that they didn't have anything. I guess if they could've gotten the thing up and running during the head of steam they built up during "All That You Can't Leave Behind" and "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" they could have ridden the wave of goodwill. But at this point I think they have completely deflated themselves.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:32am

A lot of shows do make changes after they're frozen just prior to opening night, but they usually aren't so public about it...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:33am

Kind of a stupid move on their part to say that before the critics publish their reviews.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:38am

I don't think either one of them has any clue whatsoever about the meaning of the word "frozen" or what that statement means in context.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:49am

And why on earth would Bono say he hated it but finally kind of liked a performance two weeks ago? Shouldn't he be saying how it kept improving, not that it totally sucked but they took the public's money and now it's at least better?

[nomdeplume]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 10:59am

Think of it as frozen like a GLEE slushie.

[CurtainPullDowner]

Posted: 6/14/11 at 11:12am

Where's Ethel when we need her?