BOOH Musical should be careful of this type of nonesense.
Taymor, the director of "The Lion King," conceived of "Spider-Man" as an "installation show," something big and bold and full of special effects. Something, in other words, like Cirque du Soleil.
That's fine if you're going to put the damn thing up in Las Vegas, where "installation shows" run several times a day and are funded in large part by hotels and casinos.
But at $45 million -- and with a weekly running cost of almost $900,000 -- "Spider-Man" at the 1,700-seat Hilton could never be profitable.
> The thing is.......Bono and the edge was on Jonathan Ross
> a few weeks ago and he asked them who the villain was and
> they said 'it's a new villain.........only been in the
> comic books once and its a female'. WTF? It's jus like
> doing BATMAN the musical without joker as the main villain
> - just would not work. But i aint no expert!!! But what
> got me the most was that they didn't seem excited about
> the project and extreeeeeeemly cagey about the whole
> thing!!!! Perhaps it was starting to come off its rails
> then?
>
> > So Dance of the Vampires is said to be one of the biggest
> > financial flops on Broadway, right? If
> > href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/08122009/entertainment/theater/spider_man_a_no_show_184141.htm">this
> > article is correct, the Spider-man musical written by
> > U2 may give it a run for it's money.
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