Monday, March 14, 2011
‘Spider-Man’ - A Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons
NYTimes.com: "After a year of false starts the producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” proclaimed in January that their Broadway musical would absolutely open on a newly set date, March 15. Most of the cast and crew members weren’t buying it.
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I didn't realize how doomed this show was from the beginning. Three producers, the original one dead and the current one blaming the last? This already sounds like a recipe for disaster. Not to mention half the creative team gone and a director writing...poorly and with miscommunications with the other half of the team. It sounds to me like the producers would have benefited from talking to Disney about what worked for Lion King and trying to replicate that atmosphere. The most painful part is Cohl's blind faith “we have a show that’s a 10 now, and it needs to be a 12, that’s all.”
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