Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2

http://www.newsfromme.com/spider-manbroadway.jpg

Why are they trying to make Spider-man into Batman?

Batman made more money?

So...will this kill or just maim people?

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.)

They are.

It's been done
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_AZuBjEIw

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 & Robin
Oh my god, Batman & Robin
Praise the lord, Batman & Robin
Shoot man shoot, Batman & Robin
Let's go Bruce Wayne now, and Dick Grayson now
They are a part of meeeeeee!

There's always this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlfr7wsqcM

And, of course:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4

Curses.

This one might work better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxySK01v1os&feature=related

A rousing start:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/spider-mans-broadway-bow-delayed-until-february-7/

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.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/spider-man-opening-delayed-again/?hpw

Comments are deadly.

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.

My friends' six-year-old daughter reviewed it.

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.

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?

I loved that review!

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.
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:D

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 ..

http://sayanythingblog.com/files/2010/11/money-toilet.jpg

this shit is gonna make Capeman look like Cats

I feel like they could have made a fine musical without making this super dangerous for all the actors

Performing performer injured during performance of 'Spider-Man' musical performance, reports the performing New York Performing Times performance.

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.

that dude's Yelp reviews are all about mise en scene

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.”

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?

I'm sure the Cirque du Soleil folks are just shaking their heads at this whole thing.

hahaha

Hey peeps there is a lunar eclipse going on right now.

My friends' six-year-old daughter reviewed it.

― would like a calmer set (Eazy), Sunday, December 19, 2010 3:44 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

That were good that

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.

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?

If the guy didn't land on Bono, I don't care.

That would have been poetic justice.

not to be a killjoy but dude was in a neck brace and on a stretcher

i'm pretty sure you meant to be a killjoy there

yah, i suppose i did.

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).

It seems like so little thought was given to safety precautions for this production, which seems insane given the amount of wirework involved.

So apparently this will need to run for at least four years just to recoup costs? What will the death toll be by then?

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.

How to fix the Spider-Man musical: cast Jerry Lewis in the lead role. Change title to The Nutty Spider. You're welcome.

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!"

"Equity to Halt Performances; Investigation Underway"

Several broken ribs.

Very lucky man, I should add.

Curious if Julie Taymor's going to follow her "when did we start caring about money?" quotes with "when did we start caring about cast injuries?"

Internal bleeding, too. And he fell 30 feet, not the initially reported 8-10.

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

The archive might as well just be called "all recorded accidents."

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 sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOcPFoT6T8

cant believe they couldnt sneak Grinder Girl onstage in that Letterman clip

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

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.

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