Bono is tryly pond scum.
In an interview with Nightline, the moron had this to say: ""It might have been a little hard for some other people around here to take that, but we don't disagree with the New York Times. That's the sort of stuff we were saying backstage," the frontman revealed. The last version of Turn Off The Dark had a lot of magic and mysterious stuff. It was beautiful actually, in so many ways. It just, it didn't cohere."
Ben Brantley's pathetic review let Bono and The Edge's terrible score off the hook. "The songs by Bono and the Edge are rarely allowed to take full, attention-capturing form. Mostly they blur into a sustained electronic twang of varying volume, increasing and decreasing in intensity, like a persistent headache"
Rarely allowed to take full attention? Are you kidding me? The songs were ghastly. What Taymor did well, she did better than anyone else ever has. It isn't her fault she was working with people who were terrified of her. She needed to be reigned in and somebody need to write songs and a book. Visually, it is a joy plain and simple.
The re-tooled version, which I do plan to see, essentially takes the great climax to the first act and put it at the end of the musical. That's the big retooling? At least, add an additional fight? Oh, wait… there is nobody who can direct it.
Oh, and a new Bono/Edge song. Until I am proven otherwise, I'm gonna assume these guys don't know how to write good songs anymore. Ten years of crap is enough…
there is something so meanspirited behind Bono's Christian well meet worldlove smirk. Bono claims it is 80% fixed, I was at TKTS (the discount theatre tickets hub at Cohan Square and tix were available for 50% discount. Riddle me that.