If they were smart, they would make this 3-D, like "Avatar."
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 02:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Opening date set. Plus:
Tickets for "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" are set to go on sale to the general public in September, but no specific date was given.Organizers also announced new cast members for the blockbuster production. Tony nominee Jennifer Damiano will play the role of Mary Jane Watson, taking over from Evan Rachel Wood, and Patrick Page will play the Green Goblin, a role that was previously going to be played by Alan Cumming.Damiano received a Tony nomination last year for her supporting role in the musical "Next to Normal."Reeve Carney is still on board to play the lead role of Peter Parker.The cast is scheduled to begin full rehearsals on Aug. 16.Among the casualties of the show is its original publicity team, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, which resigned from the account in July. The show's PR is now being handled by O&M Co.
Organizers also announced new cast members for the blockbuster production. Tony nominee Jennifer Damiano will play the role of Mary Jane Watson, taking over from Evan Rachel Wood, and Patrick Page will play the Green Goblin, a role that was previously going to be played by Alan Cumming.
Damiano received a Tony nomination last year for her supporting role in the musical "Next to Normal."
Reeve Carney is still on board to play the lead role of Peter Parker.
The cast is scheduled to begin full rehearsals on Aug. 16.
Among the casualties of the show is its original publicity team, Boneau/Bryan-Brown, which resigned from the account in July. The show's PR is now being handled by O&M Co.
Entertainment.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"Turn Off The Dark" always makes me laugh ... why are they bothering with a subtitle? Shouldn't it just be "Spider-man: The Musical"?
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 August 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh dear:
http://twitpic.com/2n06pk
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 September 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
Enjoy!
http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/10/05/video-u2-performs-spider-man-song-for-the-first-time/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
No way this is as good as the 70's Spider-Man rock opera performed by Crack the Sky:
http://www.amazon.com/Spider-man-Reflections-Superhero-Stan-Lee/dp/B00004TQXY
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519TGRT5JZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg
― I'm a DUDE, Dad! (Viceroy), Tuesday, 5 October 2010 19:01 (thirteen years ago) link
BEHOLD
― R Baez, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:00 (thirteen years ago) link
You'd think Annie Liebowitz would be a little more skilled with the Photoshop
― buildings with goats on the roof (James Morrison), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
fuckin what?!? the fuck is that?
― townes van halen (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It...it is what it is.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
I love the fact that, should I ever find myself in some hypothetical connect-the-dots game at at bad party, I'll be able to connect the author of Against Interpretation with stone-cold killer Cletus Kassady.
― R Baez, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:36 (thirteen years ago) link
COME TO THINK OF IT: does this mean we'll get SECRET WARS on stage???? Or will they cop out like SPIDEY 3?
― R Baez, Tuesday, 16 November 2010 02:38 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.blogcdn.com/www.comicsalliance.com/media/2010/11/spiderman.jpg
ice to see you
― glengarry glenn danzig (latebloomer), Tuesday, 16 November 2010 07:54 (thirteen years ago) link
http://images.nymag.com/arts/theater/features/spiderman101129_3_250.jpg
The score is rich in angsty ballads and nervous riffs, with impressionistic lyrics like “There’s no time for sorrow when there’s no such thing as time.” Taymor says, “You don’t even know what that means exactly, but you know it’s right.” A song called “A Freak Like Me Needs Company,” for the eight-stilettoed Arachne and her Furies to sing near the end of the show, was apparently less right. “I thought, and still do, that it would be a hit,” says Bono. “A percussive eighties Paradise Garage dance piece with a fantastic hook. Julie was like, ‘No … ’ And I said, ‘Julie, isn’t this what you call a ten o’clock number?’ And she goes, ‘Who cares what time it is?’ ”
http://nymag.com/arts/theater/features/69680/index2.html
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
The thought of Bono & Edge writing a Paradise Garage-y "number" is just wOOow
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno, their last tribute to a discotheque wasn't so hot
― da croupier, Tuesday, 23 November 2010 19:30 (thirteen years ago) link
It could not, therefore, have come as a surprise to her parents that, when she was 15, she insisted on traveling to Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—and that at 16 she was off to Paris for a year on her own to study mime with Jacques Lecoq. “Other mothers would say to me, ‘Well, Betty, how can you let her go?’ ” her mother recalls. “But Julie’s not the kind of person you ‘let.’ ”
I can totally relate, for when i was 15 I insisted on going to Wal-Mart to buy a Super Nintendo game.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
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
getaway stayaway
― "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 22 November 2013 06:51 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt52nJWik4A
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 11 February 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
We saw one of the Julie Taymor previews. The crowd was giddy, the show was crazy and carnival-like. A+
― dinnerboat, Thursday, 11 February 2016 22:10 (eight years ago) link
can we get an Ant-Man musical now
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Monday, 4 November 2019 22:53 (four years ago) link
keep Reed on, make it a crossover with Down With Love
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
Up with Ant-man?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 4 November 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link
Up With Giant-Man
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 5 November 2019 00:20 (four years ago) link
i miss when this was all that was going on in the world
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCBjJwjgTgW
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 15:54 (two years ago) link
Crap. This gets you there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkLi5F0G0Hw
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 15:55 (two years ago) link
https://aux.avclub.com/how-youtube-is-keeping-the-memory-of-spider-man-turn-o-1846832894
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 15:56 (two years ago) link
I still can't believe that this happened
― 80's hair metal , and good praise music ! (DJP), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:57 (two years ago) link
guess we'll never get follow-up musical Hulk Hop Hooray
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link
I mean, I do and I don't want to get lost in that Archive, but shit like this is like Batman & Robin: The Movie, The Musical:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK46JScH2XI
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 16:01 (two years ago) link
god bless those archivists
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link
i'm sure once his harness failed, he became Brown Goblin
Goblin doing stand-up, then transitioning into a dance-pop tune. never knew I wanted this in my life. well because I didn't. but watch I do
― Feta Van Cheese (Neanderthal), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:05 (two 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 (two 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 (two years ago) link
This is some straight up “Zoo Animals On Wheels” horror.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 17 May 2021 16:56 (two 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 (two years ago) link
The archive might as well just be called "all recorded accidents."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 May 2021 17:55 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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 (two 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