Catcalls and technical problems marred the preview performance of the most expensive production ever staged on Broadway.
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Wednesday, June 6, 2012
THEATER
In Performance
Published: June 4, 2012
A selection of Tony Award nominees perform songs and scenes from this year’s shows.
The Tonys are on this Sunday.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Forest Hills High, Meet Broadway
.... via the soon-to-open, $0 Spiderman musical!
Yes, you read that right:
ArtsBeat: A Second Spider-Man Musical Swings Into Town
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: February 22, 2011
Frustrated by the delays that have engulfed “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” an improv comedian and composer has decided to open his own show about that comic-book wall-crawler one day earlier.
Yes, you read that right:
ArtsBeat: A Second Spider-Man Musical Swings Into Town
By DAVE ITZKOFF
Published: February 22, 2011
Frustrated by the delays that have engulfed “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” an improv comedian and composer has decided to open his own show about that comic-book wall-crawler one day earlier.
Mr. Moran said his “Spidey Project,” which has a book written by him and Jon Roufaeal and a score composed by Adam Podd and Doug Katsaros, will “100 percent” follow the origin story laid out for Spider-Man in Marvel Comics: “It’s Peter Parker, in high school at Forest Hills when he gets bitten by the spider and all that good stuff.”
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Poor Spidey
I got immense pleasure from this morning's scouring review of the Spiderman show on Broadway in The Times. I've always hated the very idea of this show, not because it tried to turn theater into a circus of sorts, but because it arrogantly uses $65 million on trying to do so. $65 million!!! And they charge what? $200 or more for seats? In these times? Such excess is disgusting for what is supposed to be a form of entertainment accessible to everyone.
Movies have for a long time had such huge budgets. It's kind of expected. And the budgets sometimes make the movies really really good. But when did all this money being thrown at a Broadway show ever really make it "good" and not just some spectacle. Theater is supposed to enrich us as human beings and that is what is being forgotten in this Spiderman mess.
THEATER
Good vs. Evil, Hanging by a Thread
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: February 7, 2011
This show is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway, but it may also rank among the worst.
Movies have for a long time had such huge budgets. It's kind of expected. And the budgets sometimes make the movies really really good. But when did all this money being thrown at a Broadway show ever really make it "good" and not just some spectacle. Theater is supposed to enrich us as human beings and that is what is being forgotten in this Spiderman mess.
THEATER
Good vs. Evil, Hanging by a Thread
By BEN BRANTLEY
Published: February 7, 2011
This show is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway, but it may also rank among the worst.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
An Exercise in Hubris
Will somebody please put this train wreck out of its misery and bring back Shakespeare for crying out loud?
ARTS
ArtsBeat: Performer Is Injured During ‘Spider-Man’ Performance
By DAVE ITZKOFF and HAMILTON BOARDMAN
Published: December 20, 2010
Theatergoers said they saw either the actor fall a distance of about eight to ten feet into a pit during the closing minutes of the show.
I just hope this performer is alright since there were limited details when I wrote this.
I think we're all pretty much learning from this ongoing theatrical disaster that the theater is not a movie, it is a play - with real live people, not digital effects that you can easily make do what you want by manipulating ones and zeros. And this, apparently, is what you get when you forget that.
By the way, with so many people being injured in this new production, it makes you wonder - isn't there supposed to be some kind of safety check by the city or fire department or someone to ensure the well-being of the performers before they go risking their lives? Or does that kind of fall by the wayside when you are spending many millions?
ARTS
ArtsBeat: Performer Is Injured During ‘Spider-Man’ Performance
By DAVE ITZKOFF and HAMILTON BOARDMAN
Published: December 20, 2010
Theatergoers said they saw either the actor fall a distance of about eight to ten feet into a pit during the closing minutes of the show.
I just hope this performer is alright since there were limited details when I wrote this.
I think we're all pretty much learning from this ongoing theatrical disaster that the theater is not a movie, it is a play - with real live people, not digital effects that you can easily make do what you want by manipulating ones and zeros. And this, apparently, is what you get when you forget that.
By the way, with so many people being injured in this new production, it makes you wonder - isn't there supposed to be some kind of safety check by the city or fire department or someone to ensure the well-being of the performers before they go risking their lives? Or does that kind of fall by the wayside when you are spending many millions?
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
File Under "Quite Useful Indeed!"
New York's discount theater booth goes high-tech
Monday, November 29, 2010
First, You Have to Crawl...
Whatever happened to just writing something that was witty and brilliant and then performing it?
What is with all this special effects hoopla?
I don't know about you, but for $150 or whatever Broadway seats cost these days, I don't want to have to worry about an actor falling on my head. Stay on the frickin' stage where you belong!
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