Thursday, March 10, 2011

Who you tryin' to get crazy with, ese?!

Is Charlie Sheen losing his mind?

Nein!!! Nein und abermals NEIN!!!

Would you like to have a discussion about crazy with me?

Julie Taymor has had her baby—the worst Spider-Man musical ever—taken away from her. She's officially been told to hit the bricks and amscray. They're pushing the opening date yet again (to June?) and bringing in a fresh creative team to shine up this theatrical turd.

Thing is, ill-conceived disaster though it may be, it was Julie Taymor's disaster. She co-wrote the damn thing. Her personality is all over this production, from the story on up. It was a mess but it was uniquely HER mess. While completely re-conceiving the script and getting a new director may help... I'm still baffled at how they can keep working on this. And in such a public way. You could strip out all of Taymor's nonsense and craft a story with more cohesiveness... and more Spider-Man... and perhaps ultimately come up with a better show... but it wouldn't be "SPIDER-MAN: TURN OFF THE DARK".

It's incredible that they're still throwing money at this thing. Imagine a movie studio allowing Steven Spielberg to remake "The Terminal" three times over the course of a year, releasing each version to movie theaters, and then bringing on Brett Ratner to remake "The Terminal" a fourth time.

The thing with theater, though, is that it is alive. People will pay to watch whatever the hell they can string together on any given night.

This has got to be mortifying for Taymor, though.

Fortunately, rich people don't get sad.

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