Spiderman: Turned To Dark.
The show has been cancelled by State officials till stringent new rules are put in effect.
Essentially, as predicted earlier this week, that should do it.
Following four accidents, the last with an actor falling 30 feet and lucky to be alive, that, my friend, is the game.
I was hoping they’d make it through Sunday when I had tix but it wasn’t to be. I would’ve loved to have seen this, not because I wanted to watch people hurt, and not because I thought it would be good, but because I wanted to hear just how bad the Bono score would’ve been.
U2 won’t be hurt by this but Julie Taymor, a true artist, will be devastated.
Here is the moral: if you are gonna produce Spiderman on Broadway get Disney to control Taymor.
How bad was it? Pretty terrible but savable. The book and the music a mess, how can you survive that? The look, just the bits on 60 minutes, were magnificent.
I hope they manage to put it back up.
Great art entails great risks, this was a great, great risk, but if you are gonna lose 68M, better here than bailing out fat cats on Wall Street.