Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Theater Spider-Man Musical Loses Taymor, Adds Three Months of Previews After Hiatus and Overhaul
Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 9:42 AM
After more than three months and 100 show, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark has logged more preview performances than any other production in Broadway history, and now, just one week from what was supposed to be an immovable opening date of March 15, producers are making a pair of major announcements: three more months of previews and tinkering (after a multi-week shutdown), and visionary director, writer and mask designer Julie Taymor is out.http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/theater/spider-man-director-faces-tough-choices-including-her-exit.html
After racking up a pair of safety citations from the Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration last week, rumors suggested that Taymor might leave the project and that the expected delay was all but a certainty.
Yesterday evening news broke all at once—though an official announcement is still not expected until later this week—that Taymor is leaving the project she helped create, the production will be shut down for several weeks in order to perform a major overhaul, and the opening night will move way back, past the Tony Awards deadline, most likely to the week of the awards ceremony in mid-June. All those non-Glenn Beck critics who said the show would be better off as a perpetual work-in-progress are being granted their wish.
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Spider-man is no ones show, that’s her problem. She thinks she’s bigger than the mythos and didn’t respect it. She deserves everything she’s getting. As someone who has collected Spider-man comics since he was 4 years old I hate her. It was written for her already countless times…(not to mention that The Night Gwen Stacy Died is already set up as a theatrical type story) She took a shit on Spider-man and she can leave with whatever money and fame she got from it, but you could tell there was no love there from her except for herself. http://www.illinoislemonlaw.com/
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