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    Hallowe'en Brings Spider-Man Musical Tickets

    Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?

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    Spider-Man's Unexpected Early Stage Debut

    Coraline Musical Offers Unexpected Pianos And Casting

    Texans Will Believe A Man Can Fly, Croon

    Magnetic Fields Compose The Tunes For Coraline Musical

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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    09/15/09

    In reply to Hallowe'en Brings Spider-Man Musical Tickets
    I'll buy a ticket. If only to see Bono and the Edge thrown over a building by Dr Octopus and Spidey unfortunatly NOT save the day!!
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    08/07/09

    In reply to Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?
    See, now instead of having Bono and the Edge do the music for this show, they should have gone with They Might Be Giants, and then Spider-Man could team up with Universe Man to save Particle Man from Triangle Man. And Person Man could be the comic relief.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Boas_MC was starred Boas_MC was unstarred
    Image of MISS MERCY STREET MISS MERCY STREET
    08/07/09

    In reply to Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?
    Taymor is notorious for blowing budgets (and everyone's patience). This is business as usual.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment MISS MERCY STREET was starred MISS MERCY STREET was unstarred
    Image of stchoo stchoo
    08/07/09

    In reply to Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?
    NOOOOOOOO!!!!!I want to see this abomination....at least make it to the premiere.
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    Elizabeth Weinbloom promoted this comment stchoo was starred stchoo was unstarred
    Image of braak braak
    08/07/09

    In reply to Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?
    Wait...they have to build a theater?
    Oh shit, man, that never ends well.
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    braak was starred braak was unstarred
    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/07/09

    In reply to Spider-Man Musical Out Of Money?
    Good.glad to hear this.real dumb idea to make musicals out of superheroes or for that fact it pisses me off to see musicals made out of movies i enjoy.
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    gorehound was starred gorehound was unstarred
    Image of braak braak
    08/07/09

    @gorehound: Indeed! Who would make a musical about superheroes? One might as well make a musical about the common house-cat!
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    06/09/09

    In reply to Spider-Man's Unexpected Early Stage Debut
    No matter how bad this is, it will never top the abortive pile of suck that was Batman: The Musical


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    Image of evildead1971 evildead1971
    06/09/09

    In reply to Spider-Man's Unexpected Early Stage Debut
    not only is hollywood out of ideas, so is broadway
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    Image of HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H. HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.
    06/09/09

    @evildead1971: Broadway's been out of ideas for quite some time now. I can count the musicals that aren't adapted from some other source on one hand. It's like Ice Capades, only with better music.
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    Image of franklinshepard franklinshepard
    06/09/09

    @HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: Well, to play devil's advocate, it's always been that way. The amount of original musicals to open on Broadway and succeed is a startlingly short list. It's just that authors used to try to find good source material, and now they just try to find the most popular.
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    06/09/09

    @franklinshepard: Beat me to it, mate. :)
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    Elizabeth Weinbloom was starred Elizabeth Weinbloom was unstarred
    Image of Alexis Alexis
    05/23/09

    In reply to Coraline Musical Offers Unexpected Pianos And Casting
    Sorry, but I'm hung up on the role of Coraline not going to a child. The whole thing is centered around a child not understanding the adult world around her and learning to grow up. While I'm sure this woman is a capable actor, there has to be some great young talent for this. This woman's age seems distracting.


    Saying a character "just happens to be 9" is ridiculous. Being nine is important to the journey of the story.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    05/26/09

    @Evlsushi: Yeah, it ind of loses the point. Isn't a 56 year old woman going through this plot going to look... er... developmentally disabled?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of FredicvsMaximvs FredicvsMaximvs
    04/19/09

    In reply to Texans Will Believe A Man Can Fly, Croon
    I'm excited! After all, I'm the one who's going to build the scenery for this! (Well, me and my carpenters.)
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    Image of prettycool prettycool
    03/17/09

    In reply to Magnetic Fields Compose The Tunes For Coraline Musical
    my heart...it's all over the floor in a puddle.


    hmm...

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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    03/17/09

    In reply to Magnetic Fields Compose The Tunes For Coraline Musical
    I agree that 99% of people who attempt to perform Stephin Merritt songs that are not named Stephin Merritt (or Claudia Gonson, or Daniel Handler) are guilty of crimes against tonality.


    Stephin has collaborated on at least three other pieces of musical theater so far (highlights of which are available on his album "Showtunes" or individually on iTunes), yet the incredible ability of some of the some of the vocalists to sing in keys heretofore unknown to man does somewhat limit their enjoyability.

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    Image of h4nn4h h4nn4h
    03/17/09

    @bluehinter: Have you not heard the 6ths? That entire "band" is based on the concept of other people performing Stephin Merritt's songs, and it works great. I also think that Susan Anway made some (if not most) of his songs even beter than when he sings them (listen to both versions of "take ecstasy with me" and you'll see what I mean)...So when I think about it, I don't agree at all, even though it does sound a little stupid at first (because I absolutely love to hear him sing, don't doubt that for a second!).
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    h4nn4h was starred h4nn4h was unstarred
    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    03/18/09

    @h4nn4h: You're right. The 6ths should have been up on there too. (plus Susan Anway and Shirley Simms)


    My statement still stands though, since for every good cover of a Stephin Merritt song you may stumble across, there's at least fifteen budding singer/songwriters or hippie jam bands out there, eager to inflict yet another mumbled atonal version of "Acoustic Guitar" on an unsuspecting world.

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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    03/17/09

    In reply to Magnetic Fields Compose The Tunes For Coraline Musical
    Am I the only one who thinks Skinny Puppy should score it instead?
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    Image of braak braak
    03/17/09

    @bonniegrrl: Yes.
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    braak was starred braak was unstarred
    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    03/17/09

    @braak: Drats.
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    Image of el smrtmnky el smrtmnky
    02/26/09

    In reply to Star Wars' Musical Journey No Star Wars On Ice, Claims Rolling Stone
    of course there's no r2. we all know c3-po's the theater queen
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    Image of cletar cletar
    02/26/09

    In reply to Star Wars' Musical Journey No Star Wars On Ice, Claims Rolling Stone
    I was working on a survey, which involved a lot of tromping in the woods, and one of my co-workers and I came up with a bunch of numbers for a Star Wars musical, which we sang and sang, until a third co-worker threatened to kill us and leave our bodies out there. The Han/Leia duet "A Princess and a Guy Like Me/A Pirate and a Gal Like Me" and Chewie's moving ballad about being misunderstood, "I'm Just a Walking Carpet" were pretty good.


    I know what you're thinking--Chewie couldn't talk!--and that's true, his interaction with the characters was as it was in the movies, but we, the audience, could understand him, when he turned and sang to US in his beautiful tenor.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    02/26/09

    @cletar: I'd probably have joined you and gotten threatened as well. Sounds like a lot of fun. I've done stuff exactly like that before. Do you remember any of the numbers, or was it a "you had to be there" thing?
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
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