So how is that different from... oh, never mind.
― T.V.O.D Party (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Sounds like the best stuff they've done in years
― Tom D (Lenin's his feir and Liebknecht's his mate) (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
A roundup:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/spider-man-turns-off-the-critics/?ref=arts
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Backhanded disclaimer:
The choreography took some thumps, and the flying sequences did not particularly wow the critics (all of whom, it’s perhaps worth noting, are adults).
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, what about the child reviewers? and the idiots? why don't we let the idiots review this?
― الله basedأكبر (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNkYQvV5w6g&feature=player_embedded#
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8910/image0gq.jpgWho do I shot to get out of this production?
― T.V.O.D. Party (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Same guy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/petermmarino#p/a/u/0/dPH7vZ3Rev8
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
^hilarious review quotes in less than a minute.
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/20/whats-not-to-love-jackie-mason-waits-for-spider-man-to-break-his-dubious-record/
― T.V.O.D. Party (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2011 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
This damn show was simply using up all of Broadway's oxygen.
Now, maybe people will start talking about The Book of Mormon, which may be great or may suck, but at least won't be an overproduced fiasco.
― Dodo Lurker (Slim and Slam), Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
The Book of Mormon: The Musical
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh Moroni!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 February 2011 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"... their most howling derision was reserved for a shoe-related number in the second act called Deeply Furious, or, as Variety puts it, "the spiders-in-high-heels number which is fast developing into musical-theatre legend". Elisabeth Vincentelli from the New York Post dismissed it as "a preposterous number", while Rooney admitted that "this is where the show really jumps the shark [...] Arachne and her Furies go shoe-shopping before entering the human world. Seriously."
really need You Tube footage of this in my life. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/feb/09/spider-man-musical-reviews-roundup
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 11:40 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPH7vZ3Rev8
― piscesx, Thursday, 10 February 2011 11:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, this production's in no trouble at all...
http://www.deadline.com/2011/02/breaking-roberto-aguirre-sacasa-hired-to-rework-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark/
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 01:18 (thirteen years ago) link
What's funny is that the folks that saw it both before and after the book was allegedly worked on the first major time said that not only did it still suck, but that it remained more or less the same. This far down the line I can only imagine so much of the show is locked into place that whatever changes can still be made to the story are limited at best.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 February 2011 03:06 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/theater/16vanessa-redgrave.html?scp=1&sq=redgrave&st=cse
The director, David Esbjornson, described Vanessa Redgrave’s focus on puzzling out her character as “laserlike and total,” and this seemed wholly so. For example she wasn’t too familiar with the other Broadway fare around her; she referred to “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the $65 million musical extravaganza a few blocks away, at one point, wonderfully, as “Let the Light Come in From the Dark, Superman.”
― Let the Light Come in From the Dark, Superman (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 February 2011 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay SHE should be doing the rewrites.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Brilliant. Cannot be improved upon.
― Poll Man River: The Jerome Kern Poll (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 February 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Funniest thing are the threads on BroadwayWorld.com. For message boards it's not bad but there's a few doofuses in the Spiderman thread admonishing everyone for hoping the show fails because "of the economy impact" of the show.
Err last I looked the Spidy investors won't be denting Wall Street or getting a bailout
― sarah, palin and tall (San Te), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I might go see Miss Daisy if Redgrave wore the Knicks shirt onstage.
Michael Feingold on why he didn't bumrush Spider-Man:
It all has little to do with theater, and even less to do with criticism. Postponements, accidents, and epic cost overruns generate publicity. If seeing the show that provoked such publicity tempts you, you don't really care whether one reviewer called the score forgettable and another thought the story was incoherent. A critic trying to interfere with that public's interest is ludicrous—he might as well stand outside an amusement park bitching that the Ferris wheel doesn't look like a Rodin.
http://www.villagevoice.com/2011-02-16/theater/spider-man-turn-off-the-kvetch/
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Lol, idiot producer posted this blog (and even logged onto BroadwayWorld to show everyone). What an idiot...
http://www.crazytownblog.com/crazytown/2011/02/look-out-here-comes-a-spider-critic.html
― sarah, palin and tall (San Te), Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Never knew Jackey Harvey moonlighted as a producer.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 17 February 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
excellent use of bolding
― Let the Light Come in From the Dark, Superman (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 February 2011 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
The producers of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have brought on a veteran musical supervisor and conductor, Paul Bogaev, as a consultant to help improve the performance, vocal and orchestration arrangements, and sound quality of the songs and numbers, a production spokesman, Rick Miramontez, confirmed on Monday.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 February 2011 23:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess it's about time to readjust that budget figure, huh
― Simon H., Monday, 21 February 2011 23:56 (thirteen years ago) link
http://thespideyproject.blogspot.com
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiV-9HblOvM
― bang-proof-bling-mans (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
There's some quote coming to mind right now involving "deckchairs" and "Titanic", but damned if I can remember the rest of it.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 19:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol I remember a similar joke like that from Del Shores's "Sordid Lives", where this dude's wife claims she lost weight, and dude replies by saying she's fat and her weight loss was like "the Titanic losing a few deckchairs"
― angel of debt!!! monarch to the kingdom of the Fed... (San Te), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
too bad it never occurred to them to bring in a writer familiar with comics and a musical supervisor familiar with broadway until after months of previews, I guess?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Every time I hear or read a headline about this I picture Bono and a bunch of rich investors just tossing buckets full of money into a giant bottomless hole.
― rendezvous then i'm through with HOOS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 22 February 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, there's talk of a JUNE opening now. I still say never.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:21 (thirteen years ago) link
http://broadwayworld.com/article/Bloomberg_Says_SPIDERMAN_Has_No_Chance_to_Recoup_20010101
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
turning the currently schedule March 15 opening performance into a celebration of the work done so far
everybody gets a trophy day!
― Simon H. Shit (Simon H.), Thursday, 3 March 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/04/spider-man-cited-for-federal-safety-violations/?hp
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 5 March 2011 02:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Writing clearly on the wall now:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/theater/spider-man-director-faces-tough-choices-including-her-exit.html
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
“Anyone who creates knows — when it’s not quite there. Where it hasn’t quite become the phoenix or the burnt char. And I am right there.”
Indeed.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
god please close this, i'd even settle for a revival of Bring Back Birdie in its place
― orville reddenflocka (San Te), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Miss Taymor, lest you shirk, you should know:
"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility."
― Comics can't all be syringes and scalpels poised before eyes. y'know? (R Baez), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
I like Titus and some of the Beatles movie. I hope she rebounds.
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 04:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Postponed, oh the shock
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Little do we know, this is the world's most expensive media prank. Literally every single one of us has been secretly filmed throughout this whole thing. It's going to be a movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Webroulette
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like that Stone Fury prank except we're all that guy who thinks he's playing Stone Fury
― orville reddenflocka (San Te), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Seriously tho if I were a director, seeing "Spiderman" on anybody's resume would be a plus. If they can handle that disaster and not run fleeing, what can't they handle?
Course it could also trigger subconscious emotional damage to where years later they'll wind up weeping uncontrollably on stage for no reason.
― orville reddenflocka (San Te), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Hulk: Turn Off Dark
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 9 March 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41m-zerzJUL._SS500_.jpgHowie B: Turn the Dark Off
― Honor de Falla (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
spidey project still going strong, second show about to sell outhttp://thespideyproject.blogspot.com/2011/03/normal-0-0-1-366-2091-17-4-2567-11.html
― I just want to give a shout-out to Buzzy Beetles (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 March 2011 14:51 (thirteen years ago) link