Spider-Man The Musical is Cancelled

[palitoy]

Topless Robot - The Lights Are Turned Out on the Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Musical

I'm a lifelong Spidey fan but there was no way I was ever going to see something like this. If there is somebody here who feels otherwise, please tell me why...

[huedell]

It could have been exciting for kids to see superheroes "live".

[palitoy]

I guess but wouldn't a travelling mall show be better than an expensive broadway show in a fixed location?

[MIB41]

I'm SO GLAD to hear this! I always felt a musical of Spiderman would only emphasize the "geek" qualities of fans that need to see him in all capacities. For me if your going to do something, make sure it can be done right and out of respect for the original source material. I can't see Spiderman in a musical anymore than I can see Jaws as a musical. It just doesn't fit the material. Thank God! Common sense saves the day!!

[huedell]

I guess but wouldn't a travelling mall show be better than an expensive broadway show in a fixed location?

I don't know. Maybe.

Just thinking of all those Disney musicals.

A few of them have been homeruns.

[kingdom warrior]

hooooooooooooooooray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[60'schild]

Oh the horror... oh the humanity ...

[SUP-Ronin]

Best news I've heard all day. Maybe they can try a spiderman-icecapades instead. Or did they do that already?? Or spidey could do a cameo in that Star Wars musical I heard something about.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Well, the Captain America musical died in the late 80s/early 90s, so now this makes two Marvel musicals dead.

Wasn't Burton playing around with a Batman musical a few years back?

Chris

[BlackKnight]

wow...
I'll have to tell John Farley..., I think he will be Devasted,.. he was looking forward to this.

[60'schild]

Yeah, that Green Goblin solo number would have been right up there with Webber's Phantom of the Opera...

[ctc]

*snerk* BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Spider-Man THE MUSICAL?!?!?!? Heee heeee.....

>Wasn't Burton playing around with a Batman musical a few years back?

Wasn't that a "MadTV" skit? The "Slidin' down the Batpole" song is a classic!

Don C.

[samurainoir]

I actually was planning on going to New York in the new year with the intention of catching it as soon as I possibly could.

Three main reasons...

1. HUGE Spiderman fan above all other characters that I collect. And I don't shy away from the campy aspects of ol' webhead. My first run-in with him was The Electric Company version after all. I can revel in the pathos of the Death of Gwen Stacey with the best of them, but I also get a huge kick out of any depiction of the Spider-car. Isn't one of the things we admire about ol' Web-head is his sense of humour? Even at it's worst, I think a Spiderman Musical would be a spectacle on par with Water Skiing Superheroes at Sea World (and I wish I wish I wish I had a time machine so I could travel back and watch that).

But I don't think it would have been a "so bad it's good" experience because of the following reasons...

2. BIG fan of U2. 'nuff said.

3. I have a tremendous passion for live theatre, including live musical theatre, in both it's high art and mass spectacle forms. I have subscriptions to the Canadian Opera Company, Canstage, Mirvish, Factory Theatre, as well as seeing numerous productions a year by most Theatre Companies in the Greater Toronto Area (including Shaw and Stratford). I also love Cirque Du Soleil's unique brand of acrobatic spectacle, and when I heard that the proposed Spiderman Musical would be more "Cirque" than "Phantom of the Opera, I was sold on the idea because of my trip to Mexico last year.

The Wife put on a slinky red dress and got us free-cover and by-passed the line-up to a nightclub called Coco Bongo in Cancun.
Coco Bongo Official Web Page
YouTube - Coco Bongo in TV !!

Part of the entertainment is Cirque du Soleil style acrobats putting on a show inches above our heads where we stood on the dance floor. Including SPIDERMAN and THE GREEN GOBLIN battling it out on bungy cords and trapezes.
YouTube - Coco Bongo Cancun 2006 Show Spiderman
YouTube - Coco Bongo Spiderman Show - April 2008 Cancun

YouTube - Spiderman Coco Bongo Spring Break 07
YouTube - Cancun - Cocobongo - Spider Man Show

Still campy given the nightclub setting, but I think given effective choreography and proper staging, it really would have worked as theatre en masse. Particularly since they claimed the dialogue would not be sung.

[ctc]

>I think a Spiderman Musical would be a spectacle on par with Water Skiing Superheroes at Sea World (and I wish I wish I wish I had a time machine so I could travel back and watch that).

I gotta agree: a Spidey musical would be like NOTHING else. Ever! It could be great, it could be horrible; but it would definitely be memorable!

Don C.

[kingdom warrior]

I'd Rather have THOR!! The Rock Opera!