More crappy news for the most expensive Broadway show of all time: The Times reports that Natalie Mendoza — the actress who plays Arachne, a major villain invented by Julie Taymor — is leaving Spider-Man. Mendoza suffered a concussion on November 28 while offstage, when a rope holding a piece of equipment swung into her. She continued with the show despite a doctor’s recommendation, with her last performance coming on December 20. She also was shaken up by the serious injuries to Christopher Tierney, the actor who fell twenty feet and is currently recovering from a “hairline fracture in his skull, a broken scapula, a broken bone close to his elbow, four broken ribs, a bruised lung and three fractured vertebrae.”
People are also shocked that critics are reviewing the play before its official February opening date. This is practically begging for a poll:
Whoever called it the “new Macbeth” was on to something.
Someone needs to pull the plug on this abortion. I’m not a comic geek (but I am a broadway queen) and it sounds horrendous. Music and lyrics by U2? Really? I threw up a little when I wrote that just now. I had to lie down when I first heard about it.
And at $200 a ticket? It better be kick ass awesome and this clearly is not. I haven’t heard anyone say it’s the most amazing thing they’ve ever seen. But at that that price peopla are getting what they deserve.
The problem is that there is a staggering amount of $$$$ already sunk into this abortion, and those who done sunk it are not about to watch it swirl down the toilet…
Shocked, eh? Well, once you open a show to audiences in any sort of way, it’s fair game to any and all criticism.
Could this be a $65 million harbinger of the coming decline and fall of the bloated, expensive Broadway musical?