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Honestly my opinon is on this.....is a mixed feeling of the following faces:

What's Next? First there's Shrek and now Spider-Man???? How about we top things off with a Star Wars Muscial followed by a Batman Musical....and then while I am thinking crazy let's just do a musical based off of Ducktales meets Gummi Bears meets Darkwing Duck

Yeah, it does sound weird. However, it is being directed by Julie Taymor, who directed "The Lion King". Honestly, the thought of "The Lion King" on broadway 11 years ago sounded ridiculous, but look how great THAT turned out!

Do I love Spider-Man? Yes, I do.

Do I love musicals? Yes, I do.


Will I love Spider-Man as a musical? Let's find out.

This is different. The Lion King was a technical challenge. Spider-Man is much more......weird. I liked Spidey, but you know the more hardcore fans will burn this whole idea up, even after the curtain call.

ajmrowland wrote:you know the more hardcore fans will burn this whole idea up

Hi, my name's Chris. I'm a hardcore fan. I'm not burning this idea up.



You fail.

As long as it doesn't include the non-entity that is Venom, I'm sure it will be fine.

It's funny, because I remember my parents telling me how they saw a stand-up act where the guy joked about Spider-man: the musical. And now, it's kinda come true.

Not being funny or anything, though, but wouldn't it be nice for once these days if some people created a Broadway musical not adapted from a film or comic-book series?

Wonderlicious wrote:Not being funny or anything, though, but wouldn't it be nice for once these days if some people created a Broadway musical not adapted from a film or comic-book series?

That's why we got In the Heights!

There's actually only six shows on Broadway that are based off movies currently playing, and half of them are Disney, so it's not like the weaker stuff isn't getting weeded out. And I mean, there's nothing inherently wrong with doing a musical based on a movie / play / album / comic, we've been doing that since "Oklahoma!". One of my favorite musicals, "A Little Night Music", is based off of a movie. And let's not forget stuff like "Little Shop of Horrors", "The Producers", "42nd Street" etc. You get what you put into it.

As for "Spider-Man", I feel pretty much the same as I did when it was announced last year, which is to say I'm not expecting much. When Julie Taymor is on, yes, she can make "The Lion King" or "Frida", but when she's off, you end up with "Across the Universe", something beautiful with good music and talent but a complete mess story / character-wise. Plus, both Batman and Superman have tried to make it as musicals- "It's A Bird... It's A Plane... It's Superman" flopped mostly due to a lousy book and the tongue-in-cheek tone, and "Batman" has been lingering in Jim Steinman's mind for years, and I can bet you it's never gonna get out of there.

The other thing that makes me wary is music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge. Not that either is untalented, but the ability to write in a pop/rock idiom doesn't translate to stage very well. Sometimes you'll get a musician who can do both pretty effectively (I'd argue Boy George pulled this off), but most of the time you get what Phil Collins did to the stage version of "Tarzan"- a bunch of bland character songs that all sound too much like Phil Collins songs than anything specific to a character in the show.

xxhplinkxx wrote:

ajmrowland wrote:you know the more hardcore fans will burn this whole idea up

Hi, my name's Chris. I'm a hardcore fan. I'm not burning this idea up.



You fail.

You're a different breed. You're actually smart.

True Julie Taymor is directing....though Spider-Man and The Lion King are two totally opposite franchises......Just because you can make The Lion King on stage rule does not mean you can make a man into a Rock n Roll Spider-Man on stage does not you get the same outcome....being bad or good....

Actually Now that I am thinking......When I was at Universal Studios in Hollywood back in 2003 I think I remember seeing an hour long stage show of Spider-Man.....Does anyone remember that?

Also found more info on the character qualifications on 3 of the roles :

For the stage version, the Parker role is described as "male, 16-20s, great Rock voice, can be nerdy with understated sex appeal, good sense of humor," according to the casting agency.

Mary Jane, on the other hand, should be "female, 16-20s, beautiful girl next door, strong pop/rock singing voice."

Those wishing to try out should prepare 16 bars of a pop-rock song that demonstrates range. A photo and resumé (stapled together) are also desired.

The big audition is set for Monday, July 28, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Knitting Factory in Lower Manhattan. Break a leg!

The show will also feature a mythical Spider-Woman named Arachne, according to the Broadway news Web site Playbill.com. Though she's not being sought in the open audition, her character is described as "strong Celtic, Balkan style, e.g.,

Don't tell me that "mythical Spider-Woman Named Arachne" is none other than Madame Web????!!

disneyboy20022 wrote:
What's Next? First there's Shrek and now Spider-Man???? How about we top things off with a Star Wars Muscial followed by a Batman Musical....and then while I am thinking crazy let's just do a musical based off of Ducktales meets Gummi Bears meets Darkwing Duck

There already a Star Wars Musical. It's called Star Wars Holiday Special.

There was also a legit stage "Star Wars" musical that Charles Strouse was working on forever. It's... not very good.

While we're on the subject of bad musicals, let's talk about Titanic...actually, let's not. Ever.

LOL it won best musical, book, and score along with orchestration and scenic designs... someone liked it.

Maybe you'll appreciate it when you're older.

"Ship of Dreams" is also great song.

SpringHeelJack wrote:it won best musical, book, and score along with orchestration and scenic designs...

Yeah, I was gonna say...

Maury Yeston's relatively small field of work is still pretty solid... "Nine" is great in pretty much every conceivable way, I just hope the movie lives up to it.

"Phantom" was pretty iffy, but any stage version of that story is at best iffy to me.

Haha I know...but I had the misfortune of seeing a tour. Maybe it was the cast/production, but I really did NOT enjoy it.

They're planning on casting Adam Lambert ("Next American Idol" according to 95% of the population in the States) as the lead role, which I think would be really cool.