The Awesome Power of Daily Downers

Read it and weep! If you look right between the lines, anyone can see it was the relentless coverage right here, on Daily Downers, that brought these pompous nitwits into line. A musical version of Spider-Man. They are spending $65 million on this. I guess this is Broadway's way of bonding with the common man, giving him something to live for in his humdrum existence. What's next, a kabuki version of Superman? A mime troupe doing the Green Lantern? They'll need a new category here to give themselves more awards. Holy crap.

People will watch anything, but for a little while this holiday season they had a chance to watch these maroons break a few ribs. It's a shame it's over, but don't run afoul of us over here at Daily Downers or we'll scuttle your ship for good, you rotten bastards! And especially Bono. That holy rolling PC jackass is in this up to his eyeballs. He's worried about Africa while he's killing these actors on Broadway by dropping them out of faulty harnesses.

And if you read this last part it says they rehearsed more than the average show, and still had all of these accidents. Bring on the Iron Maiden. I don't think there's enough action in Act Two! Maybe we can kill all the actors, and then we'll get to the lawyers.

The Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” canceled its two Wednesday performances to test a new safety plan for the show’s 38 aerial and stage maneuvers, which involve actors hoisted or tethered in harnesses, including the maneuver that failed at Monday night’s performance when a stunt actor fell more than 20 feet and broke his ribs.

By canceling the performances at a cost of roughly $400,000 in ticket sales, and by adopting safety measures recommended by state and federal officials, the producers of “Spider-Man” sought to project a sense of urgency and understanding that action was needed to make the show safer. While the producers said that Thursday night’s performance would go on, they also committed, according to state safety officials, not to hold performances until the new measures were in place. The state officials said the plan could be tested successfully by Thursday night.

The producers and creators held a private meeting with the entire company for more than two hours on Tuesday, two people who attended said. Some cast and crew members vented frustrations to the director, Julie Taymor, and the lead producer, Michael Cohl, about their decision-making — including whether the show had had enough time this fall to rehearse before performances began. The show had more than two months of technical rehearsals inside the Foxwoods Theater, far more than most musicals. Yet “Spider-Man,” with its two dozen aerial sequences and dozens of pieces of enormous moving scenery, is the most technically complex show ever on Broadway as well as the most expensive by far, at $65 million, more than twice the cost of the previous record-holder, “Shrek the Musical.”

[New York Times]