Julie Taymor May Be Getting Booted From Spider-Man Musical

[Hungry Donner]

Update, she walked alway from the show, its going on hiatus for an overhaul.

Well I called that one wrong.

From what I've gathered the Arachne character in the play bares quite a resemblance to Taymor herself. I'm not sure if they'll be able to salvage this play while keeping that character, the much maligned Geek Chorus, and the other attempts to include overt Greek myth in a play that's supposed to be about modern superheroes.

However cutting this material basically requires starting from square one and I don't know if Bono and The Edge are willing to do that.

 

[Redem]

Well if they improve it I do hope there will remain a recording of Taynor version somewhere even if it is terrible or at least somekind of behind the scene recording

 

[Formica Archonis]

Hello, good money. You see that bad money over there? Well, we'll be throwing you at it today. Have a nice trip!

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunk_cost_fallacy or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

Knee deep in the big muddy indeed.

 

[mr_rubino]

Quote from Taymor herself: "Seriously, if you don't want to do something ambitious that's never been seen before, why do you bother?"

Because, Ms. Taymor, subtlety has it's place too.

I'm guessing you've never seen any of her other works. Clearly it doesn't in Taymorland.

 

[Hungry Donner]

Yep.

The only real way to salvage this is to cherry-pick the worthwhile actors (like Patrick Page) and crew and start with a brand new story, brand new music, and brand new producers. Otherwise they?re just setting bills on fire.

 

[SamElliot'sMustache]

Quote from Taymor herself: "Seriously, if you don't want to do something ambitious that's never been seen before, why do you bother?"

Because, Ms. Taymor, subtlety has it's place too.

Another quote from Taymor that proves she has no sense of subtlety, with the "at least I see where she's coming from" turned off, and the pretentious babbling dialed up to 11, when she acknowledged the 'problems' the production was having:

It?s very easy to climb up, is it not? I am on the precipice looking down into a dead volcano on my left, on the right it is sheer shale. I am in thongs and sarong and no hiking boots. I realize I can?t go back the way I have come. I can?t. So I throw away my camera. I throw away my thongs and I looked at the line straight in front of me. And I got down on all fours like a cat. And I held with my knees to either side of this line in front of me?30 yards or 30 feet, I don?t know. The wind was massively blowing, and the only way I could get to the other side was to look at the line straight in front of me.

I think when one imagines a stereotype of arty types, this is what one hears them saying, so thanks a lot Ms. Taymor for being one huge cliche.

 

[Callate]

...and Glenn Beck likes it? That has to be the sort of thing that's said by theatrical producers in much the same tone as, "Oh, look, Pharaoh. Locusts." Not least because I don't have a piece of paper big enough make a Venn Diagram showing the lack of intersect between "Glenn Beck's audience" and "typical audience for Broadway shows".

I kind of feel sorry for Taymor- her work in the past really has shown a remarkable amount of daring and imagination. But it begins to seem like she may have reached that dangerous point in her career where there's no one close to her with the influence to say, "This is beginning to look like too much, you need to rein it in."

 

[jackanderson]

Hasn't there already been a Spider Man musical? It had music by Snow Patrol and was acted by idiot kids.

/obscurejokenobodywillget