The producers of Turn Off The Dark just sent out a release announcing the sixth and (supposedly) final opening night for the show. Mark your calendars (in pencil) – June 14th is the new judgement day.
Furthermore, all performances between April 19th and May 11th have been cancelled. Three weeks of missed shows is a lot of lost bacon. The producers must be confident in the upcoming changes.
What can we expect from Spidey 2.0? Will it be thinner, faster, and include two video cameras? According to a report in The New York Times, it sounds like the revamped show will actually be much more straightforward than the mythic-drenched Taymor production currently on display.
Turn Off The Blog will be visiting Spider-Man this weekend. Check back on Monday for a full report on the last performance of the Taymor-approved production!
I need to get to the Foxwoods while it’s still a Taymor show! It may be severely flawed, but it will soon be morphed to follow the unwritten critic-friendly code, and I want to see the true originality while I still can.
It saddens me; I see what Taymor was trying to pull of with her myth-bound take on it. I get Arachne, I get the arstral plane, I get the Geek Chorus. But it just doesn’t translate so well. The Geek Chorus needs to be scrapped entirely, Arachne and the astral plane need to be scaled down, Mary Jane and The Green Goblin need to be clarified, and the Sinister Six need to be beefed up – filling the void left by a minimized Arachne.