A three week shutdown will bring it to about April 1st. Are they going to announce then that this whole thing is a joke and there were never any intentions to open?
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Channel 1 is reporting unamed "sources" say the opening will be pushed ahead until June. They did not say what year however. The funniest thing the newcaster said was that this would knock it out of Tony contention this year.Gee, maybe the should reconsider & open it now.
I really don't think it will shutdown forever. If the delay was a few months? Yeah, I could see that not happening. But a 2-3 MAYBE 5 week delay? They've tried this far and will try further
This is the best decision the producers have made thus far. I do not think it will completely shutdown. They put $65 million into this mess. I think they are going to do everything they can to get themselves out of it before giving up. There have been practically no changes made since the first preview. That is the problem. Well one of the many problems.
"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "
I don't wish them for failure. I APPLAUD them for putting a pause on performances to do rewrites. Was the show mis-managed? Does the current book, music, and staging suck? Yes, most of it does. The creative team, producers, and managers have learned many big lessons. However, to be in this situation -- under all this national attention by the media and the theatre community -- to make the decision to take the long, hard road of stopping performances & rewrites (instead of the easy way out, by closing the production), THAT takes courage, determination, desire, spirit, and most important of all: faith.
This show is taking the same journey that many shows take, except that most shows conduct out of town try-outs before braving New York. Look at NEXT TO NORMAL: they began as a festival show, went off-Broadway, went out-of-town, then finally ended up on Broadway. Each pitstop to the Booth Theater had several rewrites in response to having the luxury of watching the show with audiences and how they were responding to it. SPIDER-MAN decided not to have an out-of-town tryout, so they are only able to do so much.
Deciding to temporarily close means that they want to make it right. Say what you will about the production, management, and creatives (lord knows I say a LOT), but at the very least, they are trying. At the very least, we should give them that.
I wish everyone at SPIDER-MAN luck. They need it. It'll be interesting to see if they can turn this around. Doubtful they will, but at least they're trying.
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
HOWEVER, I do have to say that IF they would have done an out of town tryout and produced the same crap that it currently playing at the Foxwoods Theater, then that show would have NEVER made it to Broadway and may never have gotten the media attention it has received. In an odd way, that was a bit of luck (for them, as for us, we would have been spared).
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle