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Davio
10:29 AM

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Oh Brian May, you amusing little hairy muffin you! #spiderman
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Dr Emilio Lizardo
10:03 AM

In reply to U2's Spider-Man Musical Can't Be Worse Than Brian May's "Spy-D" Theme Tune
It's kinda catchy if you sing it in your head to the "Charles in Charge" music. #spiderman
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Whitworthian
09/03/09

In reply to Spider-Man Musical Hanging On A Single Strand?
News Flash: Apparently terrible idea turns out to be incredibly expensive terrible idea!
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crashedpc - Haifisch
09/02/09

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*snip*
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Dominus Astra
09/02/09

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I'm really curious about its target audience. I can't seem to reconcile "comic-book geeks" and "opera-going people." Is it really just me?
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Lassus
09/02/09

@Dominus Astra: If it was an opera, I can see that, but it's a broadway musical, which aims for a huge mainstream audience.

Now ME, I'd prefer an opera. But I'm that kind of geek.
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Wookie1972
09/02/09

@Lassus: Yeah, except they're not calling it a musical. They're calling a - I'm not kidding - "circus rock-'n'-roll drama." Oh, and it apparently has little to do with the Raimi movies, which makes sense - why take anything from the most popular version of the character ever?
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Lassus
09/02/09

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Despite coffindodger's bizarre little rant, I would like to see this happen, primarily to see what the music is like.
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Moff
09/02/09

@Lassus: Me too. I was thinking we'd get to hear it either way, as maybe they'd release the music to help mitigate the lost funds. But how likely is it there's an release-quality recording of anyone performing the songs at this point? Not. Very.
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se7a7n7
09/02/09

In reply to Spider-Man Musical Hanging On A Single Strand?
We'll wait to see if they can out dance the Peter Parker dance scene in Spider-Man 3.

Bit of advice to Bono... This time, when Peter does jazz hands, I better fucking see some spirit fingers or I'm walking out.
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AmishJohn
09/02/09

@se7a7n7: Peter Parker is Fosse!
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AmishJohn
09/02/09

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If 'save the day' is code for 'cast the script in concrete and chuck it off the Brooklyn Bridge', I'm all for it. Bonus points for turning the Times Square display board into the world's largest bugzapper.
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CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
09/02/09

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Nice one Bono. Does that mean it will be incredibly unwatchable and disapear up its own arse during the third act??!! Maybe we could get The Edge in t do all the music. Or at least one rift so we can copy and paste! Oh yeah....and who thinks the new 'Bono' Spiderman will give his spidey mask to the pope at the end of the act. I do! It will end world hunger and bring peace to the universe...includng Mars! Oh and if its going ahead......they MUST use those 3 costumes in the picture!
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gorehound
08/13/09

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This culture is so stupid they have to write musicals based on comicbooks.
what is next :star wars muical ?
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silentstriderm
08/13/09

@gorehound:
Empire.... On Ice!!
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Richard Spock
08/13/09

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What'd y'all expect from Max Bialystock Productions?
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ManchuCandidate
08/12/09

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The below image is a pretty good summary of what the producers who thought this was a good idea did to Spidey fans and what reality did to the aforementioned producers.
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ManchuCandidate
08/12/09

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Elpon
08/12/09

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Please tell me there's going to be a soundtrack. I wouldn't pay a cent to see the show, I just want to hear Bono's vision.
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franklinshepard
08/12/09

@Elpon: Musical theatre pedant alert - a CD recorded by the cast of a musical is technically called a cast recording, not a soundtrack. It has to do with a soundtrack being pre-recorded and played during a film. It's like calling a pen a pencil - they're both writing utensils, but they're not the same thing.
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Mekroth
08/12/09

@franklinshepard: @Elpon: "Cast recording" is a term people use to sound pretentious. Since every album is technically a "Soundtrack" and movie soundtracks never contain (that I know of) the actual, full soundtrack from the film, these little games that elitists play with semantics easily cancel themselves out. Calling it a soundtrack is perfectly fine.
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franklinshepard
08/13/09

@Mekroth: I respectfully disagree. This is why the English language is degrading - people don't care about precision of language anymore. I love my pen/pencil simile because it's so apt. (Notice I used the word simile instead of the word metaphor. It's not because "simile" is a term people use to sound pretentious, but rather because "simile" is the proper word for the figure of speech I used.)
Just look up the word "soundtrack" in any dictionary. Or wikipedia. The reason that soundtrack albums don't contain the actual, full soundtrack from the film is because the word "soundtrack" has three distinct meanings. The second meaning usually is something like "a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show."
I honestly don't understand why people don't want to use the correct phrase here. It would create far less confusion in the marketplace. I hate having to comb through rows of soundtracks when there are a few cast recordings mixed in, and I'm sure people who are just looking for soundtracks don't want to see cast recordings while they're searching for what they want either. Luckily, a few chains still separate the two.
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crashedpc - Haifisch
08/13/09

@franklinshepard: Ooh, ooh, like how people use the word "ultimate" to signify "AWESOME!" when it really means "last"!
But yeah. It's the minutiae that separates filters out the mundane.
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HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
08/13/09

@franklinshepard: You're thinking of a score, not a soundtrack.
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franklinshepard
08/13/09

@HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Well, I'm not sure exactly what you're referring to in my post, since I use "soundtrack" in at least two different ways. But "score" is a word that also has several different meanings. It can refer to a piece of written music, or the music itself, or the music played in the background of a movie.

So certain definitions of "score" are synonymous with certain definitions of "soundtrack."
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Elpon
08/13/09

@franklinshepard: People, people, people, enough with the semantics, isn't it really about the music? The music by Bono and the Edge about SPIDER-MAN!
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The-Simpsons-Rule!!
08/12/09

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Damn and I was sooooo hoping to see this musical number(as seen above).
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xredgambit
08/12/09

@The-Simpsons-Rule!!: Your name and this video had given you a heart
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franklinshepard
08/12/09

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As I tweeted in repsonse to Charlie earlier: On a purely financial basis, Spider-Man has already lost far more money than Carrie: The Musical ever did. Of course one of the reasons Carrie is still remembered is partly because of how amazing parts of it were, and how absolutely campy and terrible parts of it were.
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franklinshepard
08/12/09

@franklinshepard: Of course, there have been musicals before Carrie and since Carrie that have played fewer performances. A famous example is the Breakfast at Tiffany's musical, starring Mary Tyler Moore and Richard Chamberlain, which producer David Merrick closed in previews and returned everyone's money, claiming he wanted to save the audience from an excruciatingly boring evening.
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Elizabeth Weinbloom
08/12/09

@franklinshepard: Hmph, chalk me up as a "concur" on everything you've said in this comments thread.
Also, did anyone ACTUALLY think this show was going to happen? I mean, real people. I certainly never expected to actually see this show on a stage. Maybe they'll recreate it at French Woods or something.
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hitmouse
08/13/09

@franklinshepard: I *saw* Carrie (complete fluke that I was visiting NYC for the first time that week), and there were not really that many amazing bits. If more of the terrible bits were campy, the show might have limped on a bit further.
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franklinshepard
08/13/09

@hitmouse: Well, I can't say I've ever seen it live, but I have seen both the London video, and the Broadway video, and I'm very familiar with the material (I directed several scenes from it at my school several years ago for a senior project.)
I actually think that "And Eve Was Weak," and "I Remember How Those Boys Could Dance" are both really terrific numbers. And Betty Buckley was fantastic delivering them - you can hear the crowd go crazy for her every time she stepped onstage. And then there are moments that are good but not great, like the beautiful duet "Unsuspecting Hearts" (that went on far too long, like the title song) and the "Heaven" reprise, which seemed like the writers were trying to write something out of a Verdi opera in the vein of 1950s pastiche.
Of course, there were also things like "Do Me a Favor" (which there used to be a great rehearsal video of on youtube!) and the infamous "Kill the Pig" number, "Out For Blood."
Just for kicks, here's the last part of "And Eve Was Weak" - it's from a video I've never seen before. I have the video that was shot from the mezz.
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