Spider-Man musical claims another victim
After months of peaceful performances, this was a rocky week for the Spider-Man musical. On Tuesday original director Julie Taymor sued over royalties and on Wednesday there was yet another injury to the cast. Back-up Spidey Matthew James Thomas, who plays the title role at matinees Wednesday and Saturday, was injured backstage while racing from one scene to another. The injury required a 10-minute pause in the musical, a trip to the hospital, and stitches for Thomas.
Continue ReadingTaymor to Spidey producers: Turn on the lawsuit
Oh yeah, it's on. After being ousted from the directing chair of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the troubled Broadway show about the webslinger, director Julie Taymor kept a tight smile at the opening of the show. However, now the gloves are off and she's suing the producers over her creative rights and unpaid royalties.
Continue ReadingACTION PHILOSOPHERS on stage
Attention outtatowners who might be coming to NYC for New York Comic-Con, we know what you want to do. You want to look at comic books. And go to the theater. Well, here's how you can do BOTH. This weekend and next the Impetuous Theater Group is putting on ACTION PHILOSOPHERS!, an adaptation of the much admired comic by Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey, written by rising playwright Crystal Skillman (who is also van Lente's wife) and directed by John Hurley.
Continue ReadingSDCC11: Even Cirque du Soleil is coming to Comic-Con
Okay its official -- EVERYONE is coming to Comic-Con and putting on a show. If you thought it was already a three-ring circus, you were only half right Now it's a three-ring 3D circus. Cirque du Soliel the internationally renowned brand-name for acrobatics, swinging by your hair, juggling and other wonderment, will be bringing the finale of its Kâ show to Comic-con in a staging at Petco Park on Friday Night, which will be set against a 3D projections.
Continue ReadingRoberto Aguirre-Sacasa talks about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
Now that the drama had ended, and the show has gone on, some of the folks associated with the epic Spider-Man musical revamp are talking about their roles in it. Playwright/comics scribe Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa pens his memoirs of how he came to help rewrite the show and it's quite sunny in tone, but also gives his side of it for the first time:
Continue ReadingIs Batman Live the musical Julie Taymor really meant to make?
Based on this trippy preview, we'd say probably. This stage show opens July 19th in the UK, and arrives in America in 2012.
Continue ReadingReviews review: Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
The Spider-Man the Musical Saga closed another chapter of its saga last night with a star studded opening -- President Bill Clinton attended, as did Matt Dmon, Cindy Crawford, and of course, composers Bono and the Edge. Even more notably, director Julie Taymor, who got fired three months ago, showed up and took a curtain call. On the red carpet she was repeatedly asked if she missed being a part of this, to which she fired back, “I AM part of this.” At the end of the curtain call, Taymor and Bono even shared a cold, celebratory smooch.
Continue ReadingDan Slott’s review of the revamped Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN writer Dan Slott attended the premiere of the NEW, revised, less Arachne Spider-Man musical last night, and he tweeted his review!
Continue ReadingDid the Spider-Man musical humble Bono?
A newly family-friendly and sense-making version of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark opens on Broadway tomorrow, and its faithful Boswell, Patrick Healy, has the new storyline for the creators. The new version of of the show, as rejiggered by director Philip William McKinley and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa includes MORE Green Goblin, MORE Mary Jane, Uncle Ben and Aunt May, FIVE MORE flying sequences, MORE songs, and LESS Arachne. The experience seems to have been an unusually humbling one for the normally egotistic Bono, who co-wrote the songs and shared the blame when it went far off the rails.
Continue ReadingFirst pics from BATMAN Stage show
Unlike Spiderman: Turn Off The Critics, the BATMAN LIVE - World Arena Tour is a stunt-show, albeit probably one with more plot than the old second act of STOTD. The story is devised by Allan Heinberg, Stan Berkowitz and Alan Burnett, and cast photos from the production -- which kicks off in the UK -- have just been released. There's also a piece from the BBC which suggests this show will include tons of aerial stunts:
Continue ReadingA least ONE nerd musical triumphs on Broadway
While the Spider-Man musical has been struggling along with all the momentum of an elderly man wearing roller skates trying to go up Lombard Hill after it has been covered with lard, another nerd-derived Broadway musical has opened with the fanfare of a million angels playing Handel's Water Music while flying over a burning fireworks factory.
Continue ReadingAnother day, another Spider-Man injury
Well, this is sad. T.V. Carpio, who plays the much-dreaded Arachne character, has been on hiatus from the soon-to-be-rebuilt Spider-Nan musical after what some are saying is whiplash:
Continue ReadingSpider-Man team ignored all portents of doom
Was God trying to tell them something?
Continue ReadingThe Spider-Man show must go on without Taymor
Someday, we predict, someone will write an opera about the Spider-Man musical, which will be all about immensely talented egos, wasted money and mythic archetypes; it will be the Nixon in China for those days. Seriously, how could you have predicted the scene when fucking BONO would have to step out in front of a theatrical group and take the reins as creative leader, saying they had to move forward without the director he himself had chosen?
Continue ReadingSpider-Man musical officially delayed again — can it be saved?
Well, it looks like The Beatwill have to see Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark again! Because when it officially opens--in JUNE this time--it could be a different show. The NY Times reports that what everyone was whispering yesterday was true: the opening has been delayed until June, and the production -- the most expensive in Broadway history -- will take a break to try to fix some of the problems, and probably bring in a fixer.
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