NYTimes.com: "IN a year when the star of the most talked-about Broadway show is a superhero in Spandex, it’s hard to fault other theater companies, on or off Broadway, for feeling a bit overshadowed.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Manhattan Theater Club’s Benefit Dinner
NYTimes.com: "IN a year when the star of the most talked-about Broadway show is a superhero in Spandex, it’s hard to fault other theater companies, on or off Broadway, for feeling a bit overshadowed.
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Even when we're not talking about Spiderman, we're talking about Spiderman. A benefit that is for another theatre company is mostly devoted to each performer's opinion, in 20 words or less, of Spiderman and the surrounding drama. It's been drama-generating for years, though, so it's unsurprising. Mostly it's surprising it's made it this far.
Mr. Pasquale made an interesting point. Yes, you can make equally enjoyable theatre for less money. But theatre is about telling stories. So you use whatever you can to tell the story in the best way you can. While I would surmise Spiderman has lost sight of the story in the spectacle (so easy to do these days on Broadway), the point is telling that story best in a live venue requires more advanced technology and more complicated scenes. So it will cost more, and with Taymor at the helm, it will be crazy and probably dangerous. But that doesn't lower its merit, especially for entertainment(I'll let others argue about its place in The Theatre).
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