LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
fanpires
Stand-by Joined: 6/25/08
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#4re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/15/08 at 7:19pm
what happened to Jim Sturgess?? There goes... quite a bit of my interest in the show! haha
I still have some interest, seeing as Julie IS still directing it, but. Yeah. Jim was a BIG draw for me, and now it sounds as though he won't be in it!
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#5re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/15/08 at 7:39pmJim Sturgess would be a perfect Peter Parker. I didnt even know that was ever a consideration. Damn,.. now I want Jim Sturgess!!
ElFantasma14
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/06
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#7re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/15/08 at 9:56pm
"Do you think Julie will be at these calls?"
No, it's not an Equity call and the casting agent Telsey & Company will handle it.
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Luckydave14
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#8re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 12:00amI'm surprised how they are casting the roles so young. Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst definitely did not seem like they were in the age range of 16-20 in the movies.
#9re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 12:12amWhen I first saw the story on playbill I was bracing myself for another reality show.
#10re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 12:14amOmens. One of the producers, I understand, died at the contract signing.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#11re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 12:16amWhere is batman the musical?
He's a faker, and you've been taken in by his con. And in doing so, you are enabling him. He is doing more damage to aspergers than papa's words ever could. -Chane/Liverpool on me having asperger syndrome.
#12re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 12:21amI've a feeling this is gonna fly right of Broadway just like Tarzan.
#13re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:27am
"Where is batman the musical?"
There was actually an episode of Batman Beyond about that. Terry took Bruce to see the show and Bruce wasn't impressed.
"I didnt even know that was ever a consideration."
Jim did the reading along with his Across the Universe costar, Evan Rachel Wood, as Mary Jane.
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Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#14re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:32am
I have heard the demo.....and man oh man I hope its improved since.
Akiva
#15re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:02amYou can just smell what that crock is cooking.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954344#3428699
#16re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:54am
Where is batman the musical?
Steinman never finished it. Which is a shame, I liked what he had, but I think he's missed his window. It would've tied in a lot better with the Burton idea of Batman than the Nolan idea.
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#17re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 9:57am
"Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst definitely did not seem like they were in the age range of 16-20 in the movies."
I may be mistaken, since I haven't seen the movies in a while, but I believe in their first movie they were in their senior year of high school. So looking for someone around the age of 16-20 isn't that far off from the plot of the movie, even though Tobey McGuire and Kirstin Dunst looked older.
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viola13
Broadway Star Joined: 1/17/07
#18re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:15am
[i]I have heard the demo.....and man oh man I hope its improved since. [/i]
The demo that's going around isn't actually the demo for the Julie Taymor production. Thank god. If you go on castalbums.com, you can see that there's two different Spider-man musicals, and what's been going around as the demo is not for the Taymor production.
#19re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:16am
i wonder if there would be a song for that upside down kiss scene.
and if the guy has to sing it, while suspended upside down.
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broadwayjim42
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/19/03
#20re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 11:35am
I don't think I'm even going to mention this one to my daughter.
While I thought she was right for "Spring Awakening," i don't think this would be as good a fit.
Anyway, she went to an open call for Ang Lee's Woodstock movie filming in Columbia County and according to her mom, they liked her a lot. She'd be an extra and has no idea if or when she'll be called, but it's promising...
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#21re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:03pm
Am I really the only one who still has SOME interest in this thing?
I mean... aside from the fact that the unbelievably brilliant Julie Taymor is directing, can you really go that wrong with a score by Bono? (not sure about The Edge- never heard anything by them haha)
The main thing I'm worried about is the book. But it's just it's got one of the best directors and one of the best musicians going for it.. so I'm still inclined to believe it might just be pretty darn impressive after all.
I'm still sad about Jim not doing it though- he was the third part of what was making me actually excited about it! As long as they cast well, though, I'll still give it a chance. It could be terrible, but.. it might just not be!
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
#22re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 1:17pmI won't be able to go to the open call but I'll send in my stuff for the heck of it...
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#23re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 4:36pm
"can you really go that wrong with a score by Bono?"
YES!
Bono writes some nice stuff....
but Bono also writes some really terrible ****!
coasterking500
Chorus Member Joined: 8/20/07
#24re: Spiderman Open Calls
Posted: 7/16/08 at 5:12pmDoes anyone know who the villian is going to be. Is it going to be like the movie with Green Goblin? Im hoping it will be more comic related with a different villian..sinster six possibly?
