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Thursday, December 01, 2011

Who keeps Spider-Man flying? Meet the superfans

Yahoo! News: Christine Antosca is something of a hero to the folks behind "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark."
The 28-year-old New Yorker and Starbucks barista really liked the musical when she first saw it in May. In fact, she adored it: She has now seen it 46 times — and counting. "It draws me back every single week I see it," she says.

2 comments:

Robert said...

It is great to hear a lot of people going to see Spider-Man multiple times and go 10s of times and possibly 100s of times evenly. But what I don’t understand is how people get the money to go see this show a lot of times at the price of $100. I don’t think that these people will be the only ones that will keep this show running. It is a great point that this show makes people go to theater that normally don't go see shows. I think that this show might be the show that makes the younger audience start to go and see shows and make the theater continue to run and not die. I hope that the show runs long enough for the producer to get their money back.

Jackson said...

At first I thought this was a person I met when I saw the show earlier this year. I was waiting in the rush line for tickets and I met a girl who was 2 or 3 years younger than me who had already seen the show a dozen times and this was version 1.0 She was from Las Vegas and flew out to NYC every weekend to see the show. SOme people are just crazy and even the best show in the world couldn't draw me the way that spider man does her. I can't imagine how many times she has seen it by now but moral of the story, some people are just cukoo pants.