Maybe you weren’t privy to the last performances of Spiderman, which featured actors raining down from the sky like underpaid drops of drama. Or the ones where Julie Taymor was fired because she disagreed with Bono’s creative vision of a comic book character – the kind of feud that could only happen to people with too much money.
But Spider-Man, the musical, is a disaster. A failure of epic proportions. Something that surprised nobody who heard that Bono, Julie Taymor and a host of other assembled motley characters were going to put on a musical based off a comic book. I like how there’s a nerd delineation –12 film adaptations of comic books may fly, but when you put that on Broadway, set it to music – nobody’s enthusiastic. Everyone’s a critic. Spiderman is rolling out a new ad campaign trying to recoup the millions of dollars lost from conception through execution, with new music, and new book, and everything except the kitchen sink thrown at a waiting Broadway audience to try to salvage whatever creditability and money they can get from the rapidly sinking project.
Meanwhile, The Book of Mormon has been nominated for 12 Tony Awards. Without costing a bajillion dollars. Read a book, Julie Taymor.
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