If the cancellation of Skins is any indication, America just isn't ready to see boffing kids. Also today: Julie Taymor wants her money dammit, good/bad news about your favorite future sitcom, William Shatner's got a new gig, and so does Damon Lindelof.
After a nearly month-long hiatus for retooling, the beleaguered Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway musicale resumed performances last night, and they didn't fuck up once! Well, that's not true. There were a few oopses, but mostly it sounds as though things went smoothly.
I can't believe the news today: Turn Off the Dark, the Spider-Man musical, has injured yet another one of its actors. I can't close my eyes and make it go away! T.V. Carpio, who replaced the concussed Natalie Mendoza as the supervillain "Arachne," was hurt last week and will be sidelined from production for two weeks.…
Not only is director Julie Taymor supposedly leaving Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, but the whole production plans to shut down for a few weeks. Yikes! An unmitigated, unprecedented (no show in Broadway history has ever run this many preview performances) disaster. Well, only creatively for now, but one would think…
Citing unnamed "sources," NY1 reports that director Julie Taymor is leaving the troubled Spider-man musical Turn Off the Dark. The news comes a day after The New York Times wrote about ongoing "negotiations" between Taymor and the musical's producers, including U2 members Bono and the Edge, who wrote the musical's…
Uh-oh: Someone seems to have told Bono that his Spider-man musical sucks. And now, according to The New York Times, the U2 frontman has "taken a direct role" in talks with director Julie Taymor over the possibility of her exit.
In what could be viewed as a vote of no confidence in director/creator Julie Taymor's ability to fix Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the producers of the creatively flailing Broadway musical (which is certainly not financially flailing) are bringing in a co-director to gently tap Taymor on the shoulder and send her…
Up until now, a curtain dropped abruptly and that was it. Now the trouble-plagued Turn Off the Dark is getting a real ending: more flying! That's smart, having one last chance to get an accident in before everyone goes home.
The opening night for the disastrous Spider-Man musical, Spiderman: Turn off the Dark, has been delayed for a third time, to March 15th. The show was supposed to open last month. So, realistically, it will open June 3rd, 2014.
Crazy old theater queen Glenn Beck was on his little radio program this morning talking about the creatively challenged but financially blessed Broadway Spider-Man musical and apparently he LOVED it. Like "this is history of Broadway being made" loved it.
The Spider-Man musical Turn Off the Dark, which has a nasty habit of seriously injuring its cast members, was the highest-grossing show on Broadway last week, beating out Wicked. Sounds like Wicked needs to start dropping its actors off buildings!
Clearly a dark agent of Julie Taymor and company, Chris Tierney — the performer who plummeted thirty feet during a performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, sparking an outcry against the show — says it's allll good. Game on!
Natalie Mendoza, who suffered a concussion while playing the villain Arachne in the first preview of the disastrous new Broadway musical Turn Off the Dark, is apparently leaving the production, according to inside sources. Good. Safety first, after all.
Well, it seems like we're not the only ones who think the new Spider-Man musical needs to be put down before it hurts anyone else. Two Broadway stars have weighed in, in dramatic fashion, against the show. As have investors.
Looks like the producers of the Spider-Man musical have decided to ignore our advice and reopen the show Wednesday.
In light of the most recent accident at the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, we just cannot stay silent any longer! This is a terrible and, evidently, dangerous show that they need to pull the plug on.
Last night was the first preview performance of the new Julie Taymor/U2 Broadway jam Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the much-plagued musical about Peter Parker and his super-villain enemies. So how'd it go? Well, please stand by for technical difficulties.
Two actors in Turn Off the Dark, the Julie Taymor-directed, U2-scored Spider-Man musical, have suffered injuries while rehearsing flying stunts. A dancer broke both wrists, another actor broke both feet. And you thought Mamma Mia! was dangerous(ly bad)!
Yes, NBC is sallying forth, trying to figure out what to do with The Office once he leaves. They have some ideas! Also today: Casting news about actors playing singers, descendants of singers becoming actors, and two hunks.
Julie Taymor and Bono's Spider-Man Broadway musical is finally underway! According to a Tweet from this young lady (who is playing Peter Parker) rehearsals have begun and they are cray-zay. It's all very exciting. Still sucks Alan Cumming quit, though.
