Comments on: Future of troubled Spider-Man musical could be set today

By: Amanda

Amanda — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:05:40 +0000

Lord of the Rings in London *was* a hit. With the fans. The real fans. It was an innovative and creative take on Tolkien’s work. I don’t bank too much on what the lousy critics say. Why the hell should it matter what *ONE* man with a crappy opinion say about a musical that many people enjoyed immensely? I bet they were either comparing it to the movie or far too close to the book the entire time. The music was lovely, and the staging was amazing.

As for Spidey? Ah, no. DC has no place on my Broadway stage…

By: Fergster

Fergster — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:23:34 +0000

I lived next to the Lord Of The Rings production in London and believe me it was not a success by any stretch. Given that it was pretty awful didn’t help matters.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:06:53 +0000

This is still an awful idea. Who reads a Spider-Man comic, or watches one of the films and thinks. you know what would make this better if he burst out into song. Specifically a song which is not a humorous rendition of his 1960s theme song.

By: Kevin Melrose

Kevin Melrose — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:16:12 +0000

The Lord of the Rings musical production didn’t fail; a world tour kicks off in 2011.

Also: I don’t think the producers are banking on gay comic-book fans for their audience (talk about a niche within a niche). If they are, Turn Off the Dark is in more trouble than anyone ever imagined.

By: Omni-man

Omni-man — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:15:15 +0000

With all the gay comic fans out there today, you’d think combining a Broadway musical with a superhero would be a no-brainer. Maybe it should have been the X-men. And what’s this Bono and the Edge shite? They couldn’t get the other no-names in the band involved and call it U2? Does Stan get a cameo every night? Just make it and let it fail like that Lord of the Rings thing, then we can all stop thinking about it, and Marvel can get on with that Captain America musical they announced back in the eighties. America fuck yeah!

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 02:45:01 +0000

Good riddance if it doesn’t work out. Not that I wish anyone in this endeavor ill, but even with a luminary like Julie Taymor at the helm this thing was just plain ill-conceived. I can’t decide which was more silly; this, or the Jim Steinman Batman musical.

By: Aaron Poehler

Aaron Poehler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:01:02 +0000

This trainwreck is inevitably going to tank whether it makes it to opening or not, better to keep it from ever seeing the light of day. What a terrible idea all around.

By: chad

chad — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:05:25 +0000

hate to say it but this latest thing is a sign that spider man is not ment to have a run on broadway since day one the thing has wound up having one thing go wrong after another. time to throw in the web shooters and call it a day.

By: g

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:27:18 +0000

And here’s more about the show itself including how it supposedly opens:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-spider-man6-2009nov06,0,3989809.story

By: g

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:23:26 +0000

Spidey still on, but for summer opening- http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/theater/west_side_whack_ZnVeviiV4uQv3B0pJNJqPL

SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark” seems to be back on track. I’m hearing that the $45 million musical, which suspended production this fall when the money ran out, will begin previews in June at the Hilton Theatre and open in July.

The show’s blowing off the April cutoff date for the Tonys. But the producers believe their audience — tourists and teenage boys — don’t pay much attention to the awards, which, as we all know, is a tarnished, conflict-riddled award run by those two useless and bloated organizations, the Broadway League and the American Theater Wing.

Bono, who’s written the score, brought in Michael Cohl, who organizes U2′s concert tours, to sort out the mess caused by the show’s lead producer, David Garfinkle.

Bono tried to push out Garfinkle, but the amateur impresario still controls the stage rights, sources say.

So they’re still stuck with him.

By: F-biz

F-biz — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:15:04 +0000

That sucks. I was looking forward to seeing this.