A taste of Spider-Man: The Musical

[SeattleEd]

Guess I'm alone in this arena?
I'm a huge fan of Julie Taymor(Across The Universe & Titus) and like The Edge's style of music writing. Saying it will be pretentious is a MAJOR understatement.
So, yes. I'm looking forward to seeing this.

[PNGwynne]

Is this starting to look good?
http://jakespeicher.files.wordpress....n-goblin01.jpg

Yes--of course, Dafoe's dressed somewhat like the Scorpion, but now we know it could've been SO much worse.

[samurainoir]

Guess I'm alone in this arena?
I'm a huge fan of Julie Taymor(Across The Universe & Titus) and like The Edge's style of music writing. Saying it will be pretentious is a MAJOR understatement.
So, yes. I'm looking forward to seeing this.

I love Cirque de Soliel's blend of artsy circus acrobatics, and being a huge U2 fan, I was really looking forward to it and I am pulling for it to be good if I'm spending hundreds of $$ to go see it.

Having seen Across the Universe, I think Peter Parker is well cast.

However, these costume designs, plus the original character Swiss Miss really don't bode well for hitting the right mark with this one.

This should be more "Beauty and the Beast" than "Lion King". Make sure the characters are recognizable as such.

It's one thing if they want to camp it up by introducing a character that looks like a Swiss Army Knife and naming her Swiss Miss. I love the old Batman TV show pop aesthetic/Electric Company Spider-man as much as the next guy. But to also toss in their attempt at something so mythological and earnest as "Icarus falls from the Sky" is really stretching it.

Either way, I do want to see it and will make the trip to New York to do so.