Backstage: "Producers of a new Batman stage show have told the BBC the production will not suffer the same problems as Broadway's troubled Spider-Man musical.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
U.K. 'Batman Live' Stage Show 'Not Another Spider-Man'
Backstage: "Producers of a new Batman stage show have told the BBC the production will not suffer the same problems as Broadway's troubled Spider-Man musical.
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I've been following this tour, mostly out of fascination with the really neat staging. I think what sets this show apart from Spider-Man is that it's not trying to be the definitive, "artsy" form of the story of Batman (sorry Julie). The show embraces what it is - spectacle for spectacle's sake with a simple plot (nearly theme park-ish, but we won't go there), and it's going to be wildly entertaining because it embraces its strengths (the stadium setup and the ability to do gigantic spectacle) and understands its limitations (namely the public's understanding of the basic story, even if they're a little fuzzy on Robin's origins). I'd like to see the reviews when this starts its tour - my prediction's a little cynical, so I'd be interested to see if they try to add more depth to the story that really, in my opinion, should simply stick to the page (especially after seeing the continual fight with trying to extend a universe for self-insertionist drama).
I really wish producers would develop more original stories than Batman or Spider-man. They have been done so many times with few modern success, even if it is in a different media. I understand that they are trying to attract a younger audience, but there's got to be something else they can do.
this is a fine example of how story telling is different culturally within different regions and countries. where america has been craving a realistic heroic epic and american audiences have a thirst for the spectacle in a realistic gravity, other countries are more readilly open to the whimsical and artistically lavish ,campy and in some ways gaudy versions of the same story. arena theatre which is in many ways a theme parks event in america and strictly that has other interpretations and intents in other countries and this is the prime example of what works at a period of time in one lace wont necessarily work at that same time in a different region.
This is great another high flying show that will be happening the coming years. But them saying that the problems that spider-man is having is not going to affect them that is a bunch of junk. There is a problems that spider-man is having technical difficulty that has nothing to do with the building in which it is in. I wonder if the see will be made hear in the states and then shipped over to the U.K. because the set design is from here and there are a few shops here in the US that can do this type of work. And we have the people that know how to fly people and the company that dose it for Spider-Man.
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