New York Times Gets Tired of Waiting, Reviews Spider-Man Musical

[DarkAudit]

And boy, is it bad.

The only bigger disaster in the theater district this week was Sprint trotting out David Blaine to announce a new phone nobody wants.

 

[Joe Johnson]

The sets in the pictures look pretty cool though. But, yeah, sounds awful.

That phone looks really stupid, too.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I did not read the whole article, but what is so different and dangerous about the wire work that they do for this play? Broadway and London have been doing this type of thing for 150 years...

 

[Joe Johnson]

I'm wondering if it's hyped up. I'm guessing if you look at other wire work plays, you have lots of accidents as well.


No, I have no facts to back this up.

 

[checkeredhat]

Yeah, the Toronto Star reviewed it last week, and it was even worse.
http://www.thestar.com/entertainmen...918--spider-man-s-secret-identity-he-s-a-flop

This $65-million musical, with its years of postponements and months of previews, lies there on the stage of the Foxwoods Theatre like the biggest beached whale in existence.

The show recently announced one more delay to its official opening night, moving it to March 15 (Ides of March, anyone?), which would mean that it will have had more than 31/2 months of previews, after months of earlier delays in even getting to that point. Only an elephant takes longer to give birth.

They really like their fat mammal metaphors at the Star.