xpost - yeah I meant that I don't believe they could pull it off.
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Interesting post by Mark Evanier, a writer who knows his comics and his musicals:
http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2010_11_24.html#019808
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 24 November 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
First preview yesterday... five pauses.
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/11/28/spider-man-turn-off-the-dark-spurs-broadway-blogging/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 November 2010 12:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.newsfromme.com/spider-manbroadway.jpg
Why are they trying to make Spider-man into Batman?
― It's Ong Like Donkey Kong (latebloomer), Monday, 29 November 2010 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Batman made more money?
― Mark G, Monday, 29 November 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
So...will this kill or just maim people?
― Simon H., Monday, 29 November 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
They should open a "Batman" musical across the street, and have the two leads fight suspended midair in the middle of NYC. (Twice a day on weekends.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 November 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
They are.
― R Baez, Monday, 29 November 2010 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
It's been donehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_AZuBjEIw
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 November 2010 16:55 (thirteen years ago) link
It's a shame nobody's posted the first song from this movie. It's a training montage to the tune of "Surfin' Safari" that goes
Oh my god, Batman & RobinOh my god, Batman & RobinPraise the lord, Batman & RobinShoot man shoot, Batman & RobinLet's go Bruce Wayne now, and Dick Grayson nowThey are a part of meeeeeee!
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 29 November 2010 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
There's always this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlfr7wsqcM
― R Baez, Monday, 29 November 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
And, of course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4
― R Baez, Monday, 29 November 2010 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Curses.
This one might work better.
― R Baez, Monday, 29 November 2010 17:09 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxySK01v1os&feature=related
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 November 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
A rousing start:
http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/spider-mans-broadway-bow-delayed-until-february-7/
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 17 December 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Concussions! Breaks! Bono behind the troublesome Act II! He and the Edge haven't seen it staged yet! Scenes are being rewritten, added, or cut! And then, of course, it has to pass safety muster once again, since new scenes will have to be vetted by inspectors. So glad I set aside three or four free months in the off chance the show actually starts (the article I saw in the Times not so hopefully cites "sometime in February") and I'm able to jet to New York to watch a "Spider-Man" musical, with songs from U2. Before it closes.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 December 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/spider-man-opening-delayed-again/?hpw
Comments are deadly.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:01 (thirteen years ago) link
yea it's had a pretty dreadful opening, yet people are rushing to defend it, saying "it's only previews". Yea, previews generally means a few minor flubs, script/score tweaking, and possibly a hold or two in extreme circumstances. not like five stoppages.
i've had theatre brethren scream at people saying "don't root against people, we don't need more people losing money in this economy". ??????
The funniest thing is the weakest part of the show is supposed to be the score/book, otherwise known as 75% OF TEH SHOW.
― Bitch, it cold outside!!! BURR (San Te), Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
My friends' six-year-old daughter reviewed it.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
It was awesome because he acted like he hated Spider-Man, but the actor actually likes Spider-Man quite a bit because why would he ask to be in the musical if he really hates Spider-Man?
indeed, why would someone who hates spider man make a spider man musical?
indeed.
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 18 December 2010 16:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Batman is very rich, but he has had a very sad life, and his parents died, and he hates Christmas because his parents died on Christmas.
Is this true? Batman hates Christmas?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved that review!
― Stop Non-Erotic Cabaret (Abbbottt), Saturday, 18 December 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
At one point the entire audience right wings were exposed because the two stage-left LCD video panels just sort of... floated off... toward the center... seemingly bored with their duties as directed.-
:D
― piscesx, Saturday, 18 December 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Rumor fueled by Twitter: "Ambulances Called, Show Stopped After 'Big Accident' in Spider-Man Musical."
Supposedly Spider-Man took a two-story fall without a harness, into the pit. Hope he's OK, but my spider senses tell me ..
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
http://sayanythingblog.com/files/2010/11/money-toilet.jpg
― Abbbottt & Cossstellooo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 04:54 (thirteen years ago) link
this shit is gonna make Capeman look like Cats
― Abbbottt & Cossstellooo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I feel like they could have made a fine musical without making this super dangerous for all the actors
― iatee, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Performing performer injured during performance of 'Spider-Man' musical performance, reports the performing New York Performing Times performance.
― James Mitchell, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:09 (thirteen years ago) link
from the nyt comments:
When I saw "Spiderman", my chin wasn't all covered with good, meaty, Broadway juices which I then sopped up with a soft, warm, almost painfully delicious soft bun. I was not rolling my eyes in satisfied delight and belching up the Bono tunes as a gastronomical tribute to the chefs.
But were I a swine so inclined, I'd sure as hell smell truffles.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
that dude's Yelp reviews are all about mise en scene
― smangda (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Steven Tartick, an audience member, said the accident occurred during a scene when Spider-Man is rescuing his love interest, Mary Jane, as she dangles from a rope attached to a bridge.
Mr. Tartick said he saw the actor playing Spider-Man appear to trip and fall from the bridge, into an open pit at the end of the stage.
“You heard screams,” Mr. Tartick said. “You heard a woman screaming and sobbing.”
Mr. Tartick said there was a blackout, and then the house lights in the theater were restored. An announcement made in the theater first said there would be a delay in the performance. The announcement was then updated to say the show was over.
...A press representative for “Spider-Man” said in an email message: “An actor sustained an injury at tonight’s performance of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.’ He fell several feet from a platform approximately seven minutes before the end of the performance, and the show was stopped. All signs were good as he was taken to the hospital for observation. We will have more news shortly.”
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Since he sounds relatively okay, I feel like I can make the joke about maybe the stage hands should make sure to "Turn Off the Dark" too, amirite?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm sure the Cirque du Soleil folks are just shaking their heads at this whole thing.
― I DIED, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 05:26 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaha
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 07:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey peeps there is a lunar eclipse going on right now.
― Moka, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:44 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
That were good that
― Spikey, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 07:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Look, of course it is sad when someone is injured, but this is the price you have to pay if you want to create great theater. Everyone knows that great theater is about launching people across stages using slingshots. It is what Ibsen did, it is what Shakespeare did, it is what made Sondheim famous.
To all the haters posting here, how do you expect to be enlightened at the theater if you can't see shows that launch actors into the air using slingshots? Mark my words, in one hundred years High School's will require their students to read Hamlet and to construct slingshots with which to launch each other. That obviously justifies these injuries.
― hubertus bigend (m coleman), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
reports of a little man seen laughing in the rafters, wearing a WoW giantstalker's helmet and muttering something about how he would have used The Vulture. verify?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
If the guy didn't land on Bono, I don't care.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:08 (thirteen years ago) link
That would have been poetic justice.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 13:40 (thirteen years ago) link
not to be a killjoy but dude was in a neck brace and on a stretcher
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm pretty sure you meant to be a killjoy there
― da croupier, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
yah, i suppose i did.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Neck brace and stretcher does not mean he sustained injuries to his neck or spine. It's standard procedure, in case he did sustain injuries, which will be determined once he reaches the hospital. Small solace, sure, but don't assume the worst (though video of that tumble looked, er, bad).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
It seems like so little thought was given to safety precautions for this production, which seems insane given the amount of wirework involved.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link
So apparently this will need to run for at least four years just to recoup costs? What will the death toll be by then?
― Simon H., Tuesday, 21 December 2010 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
As with any misfortune in the 2010s, I read the instant zings and think oh no not funny not funny, but then:
@Reddingwb: I hear now that during the next U2 tour they will do a tribute scrolling the names of people injured during The Spiderman broadway show.
― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
How to fix the Spider-Man musical: cast Jerry Lewis in the lead role. Change title to The Nutty Spider. You're welcome.
― Son of Sisyphus of Reaganing (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 16:34 (thirteen years ago) link
To tell the truth, I've yet to hear anything about this and not immediately think of "Stop The Planet Of The Apes. I Want To Get Off!" Though I'd much rather see "Stop The Planet Of The Apes. I Want To Get Off!"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:05 (thirteen years ago) link
"Equity to Halt Performances; Investigation Underway"
Several broken ribs.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 19:48 (thirteen years ago) link
On November 19, 2013, producers announced that the show would close on January 4, 2014, citing falling ticket sales[26] and no longer being able to get injury insurance for the production as reasons for closure.[27]
lmao
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:07 (three years ago) link
It's mentioned once upthread but the Lord of the Rings musical just missed out a bit on this kind of archival coverage -- a couple of years earlier in social media existence and more importantly never did play Broadway, only Toronto and the West End. We had a blast on our podcast talking about it and I think our show notes actually pull together the most documentation about it all around:
https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/16
But yeah, nothing will top this and I'm with Neanderthal's post for the revive. Admittedly I was having a total blast on this thread.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:16 (three years ago) link
This is some straight up “Zoo Animals On Wheels” horror.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:56 (three years ago) link
i regret not seeing that LotR musical in toronto but i figured it would play for more than a few months, ha
there's a 10-min video on that spider man youtube channel just called "all recorded accidents", not sure if i have the nerve to watch it
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:58 (three years ago) link
The archive might as well just be called "all recorded accidents."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
They chose that song when they went on Letterman (watch the ending if nothing else)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RgR0-EWuNY
Which inspired this Comedy Bang Bang sketchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOcPFoT6T8
― wasdnuos (abanana), Monday, 17 May 2021 23:33 (three years ago) link
cant believe they couldnt sneak Grinder Girl onstage in that Letterman clip
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 00:29 (three years ago) link
lol i used to work next door to this but watching that "bouncing off the walls" video is the first time i've ever heard any of the music.sounds like what i thought it would sound like
― Draymond is "Mr Dumpy" (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 03:22 (three years ago) link
What
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/george-santos-produced-broadway-s-spider-man-musical-at-least-he-claims-he-did
Add Broadway producer to the long list of George Santos’s fabrications.While running for Congress in 2021, Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, according to people familiar with the discussions. That show, which ran from 2011 to 2014, was an ill-fated production that lost tens of millions of dollars and suffered from technical mishaps and actor injuries.
While running for Congress in 2021, Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, according to people familiar with the discussions. That show, which ran from 2011 to 2014, was an ill-fated production that lost tens of millions of dollars and suffered from technical mishaps and actor injuries.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:08 (one year ago) link
Here’s a guy who thought he knew how to fix the one problem with the scam in The Producers: you gotta raise money on the production *after* it fails
― omar little, Saturday, 4 February 2023 00:25 (one year ago) link