Pepperkorn Posted December 13, 2010 Share Posted December 13, 2010 (edited) It's just not that hard to learn a new song, new choreography and new dialogue in one night much less over a month!! (you learn a whole show COLD in about a week - the rest is all polish) What SUCKS is when they cut stuff you love and replace it with more just spectacular garbage. it's like they decide plot exposition is a bad thing... Cut scene 4 the audience was required to think too hard. Cut scene 7 - too much "dialogue" not enough action -- the audience will all go take a crap (and you all DO! ) - and then not get off their ass to buy a drink at intermission. and you guys... no seriously.... the audience at large IS that bad en mass --- it's shocking. It's saddening. it's enough to make a gal quit the business Edited December 13, 2010 by Pepperkorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satans Hockey Posted December 16, 2010 Author Share Posted December 16, 2010 Looks like the official opening is going to be delayed until February now... http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/spider-man-opening-delayed-again/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneykoIsGod Posted December 17, 2010 Share Posted December 17, 2010 Is Johnny Mac directing ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneykoIsGod Posted December 21, 2010 Share Posted December 21, 2010 http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/12/21/new.york.spiderman.fall/index.html?hpt=T2 An actor was injured after a fall during a performance of the musical "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark" in New York on Monday night, a representative of the show said.The New York Fire Department said the 31-year-old fell 20 to 30 feet and was alert when he was taken to a hospital. Reeve Carney is the actor who normally plays Spider-Man. But Carney was not the performer injured, show spokesman Jaron Caldwell said. Caldwell said nine stunt men perform Spider-Man's stunts when the character is masked, but did not confirm who the injured performer is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Devils731 Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 The video is crazy. The actor dives off a platform and you can see the no longer attached cable just hanging there as he goes down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satans Hockey Posted December 22, 2010 Author Share Posted December 22, 2010 (edited) Looks to be a human error that cause the accident... http://broadwayworld.com/article/Equity_445PM_Update_Human_Error_at_Fault_20101221 Actors' Equity Association released a statement saying that they "worked today with the Department of Labor, OSHA and the production to determine that the cause of the accident at last night's performance of Spiderman was, in fact, human error. Further protocols are now being implemented, including redundancies recommended by Equity, the DOL and OSHA, to address this situation as well as other elements of the production. Equity continues to vigilantly monitor the production for the safety of its members." Edited December 22, 2010 by Satans Hockey Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaneykoIsGod Posted December 22, 2010 Share Posted December 22, 2010 The video is crazy. The actor dives off a platform and you can see the no longer attached cable just hanging there as he goes down. Yeah I saw that on the Post's website. Crazy. I can't stop thinking about what musta been going through that guy's head at the time. I mean, there's gotta be a process an actor has to go through to trust in the support cables for scenes like that. The body screams "Don't dive head-first off that prop, you big dummy! You're gonna kill yourself!" and you have to train yourself, mentally as much as physically, to trust those support cables enough to actually jump. And here it is. Show time. You jump. Right as you should be feeling the tug of the cable preventing your fall, you keep falling. So I wonder, did his mind go "Told ya so!" or was it too busy going "AAAAAAAAHHHH!"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilsrule33 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) So a lot has changed since SH saw the show. From EW: Then, in an unprecedented move last month, producers shut down the show for retooling following the departure of original director Julie Taymor. Composers Bono and the Edge remained on the creative team, bringing in director Philip McKinley and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa to help reconfigure the production.So what’s different about the show now? Plenty. Overall, the new Spider-Man is a far more traditional musical, having left behind most of Taymor’s more radical concepts. Gone are the guitar players on the stage wings, the Geek Chorus that narrated the action, and the story’s meta-narrative about the intersection of myth and reality. More strikingly, the second act has an entirely new storyline — a straightforward conflict between Spider-Man and the Green Goblin in lieu of a semi-mystical battle with the villainess Arachne. http://popwatch.ew.com/2011/05/13/spider-man-broadway/ It seems Bono and Edge's close relationship with Taymor is completely fractured. Bono said on Nightline that he agreed with some of the harshest critics about the show. This was Taymor's baby and she didn't think anything was wrong with the show at all. So the only option was removing her. Looks like they fixed a lot of the problems that SH and HOI mentioned. Edited June 10, 2011 by devilsrule33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperkorn Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) I just can't imagine (as an actor) to have work for a year and still being in previews! Whoohoo... even if the show folds opening night you've got health insurance for years to come! Edited June 10, 2011 by Pepperkorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
njskaguy33 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 Glad to hear that they decided to strip it down to simplicity. Let's be honest, you're not making Three Sisters...you're making a silly Spiderman play for tourists to check out. It should be fun, have basic story structure and not get actors injured. I'm actually suprised the Actors Union hasn't come down on this thing in defense of the safety of the actors. Just a big abomination that they'll hopefully make a more manageable abomination that will hopefully make some money for the actors and crew involved. Also, it sounds like getting rid of Taymor was just thing they needed. While I don't know much of her stage work, Lion King aside, she needs to get back to puppeteering and stop ruining Shakespere with her bad film adaptations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pepperkorn Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 (edited) Honestly, actors want to do shows like this - new innovative - actors are circus performers - stunt people. The more FABulous the show is the more people get work. How many people were playing Spiderman? What union in it's right mind would put a halt to that? Especially when it's what these people are paid to do. You're not asking some untrained schmoe to kill himself. Edited June 10, 2011 by Pepperkorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.