Saturday, November 28, 2009
New ‘Spider-Man’ Producer Reaches Out
NYTimes.com: "Michael Cohl, the new lead producer of the Broadway musical project “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” has approached Kevin McCollum and Jeffrey Seller, the Tony Award-winning producers of Broadway musicals and revivals including “West Side Story,” “In the Heights,” “Avenue Q,” “La Boheme” and “Rent,” about investing in the show, according to three Broadway producers with knowledge of the conversations."
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Ew. This makes me feel really gross inside. This show is a money pit and for no good reason. I'm half expecting it never to open, and for the producers to loose all of the money they invested in it. I feel this is at least the tenth article I've read about Spiderman being in financial trouble - and now the budget has balooned to over $50 million? I hope for the sake of everyone involved, the entire production team is able to scale WAY back.
Stop. Please just stop. This show is not even pretending to be art. Theater is not supposed to focus so much on money; you do what you need to do to tell a good story in an interesting way, and you do it with the money you have. The whole point of the Spiderman musical seems to be that its budget is SO BIG. I feel like it's never going to actually make it onstage, and I would be totally fine with that.
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