Spider-Man Musical Delays Previews
Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark, discussed here in an earlier post and possessing what is surely one of the world's strangest titles, was originally scheduled to begin previews on 25 February of this year. A news release being reported today states that they're scratching that as their start date but that an opening this year is still planned. Given the huge names involved, I'd be awfully disappointed if this ran into problems but it certainly wouldn't be the first big weird idea to have trouble or delays reaching the stage.
It's worth noting that the "Buy Tickets" link on the musical's site is still live but following it still takes one to the site where American Express members can pre-order tickets for the very previews that have theoretically just been canceled.
I'd probably use this as a chance to discuss the widely-reported implosion of the existing Spider-Man film franchise, but honestly I'm a little too excited about that. For one thing, Spider-Man 3 was a dog of a film; for another, I went to a speaking and signing event when Bruce Campbell's memoir (If Chins Could Kill) was released. Someone in the crowd asked him if there were plans to do an Evil Dead 4 now that Raimi had such weight in Hollywood and Campbell's response was, "If you can convince Sam to do Evil Dead 4 instead of doing Spider-Man 2, be my guest."
So, with that in mind, maybe now is the perfect time for Raimi to return to his roots.
Spider-Man Musical Delays Start, But Still Plans for a 2010 Broadway Opening [TheaterMania]
Breaking News: Spider-Man 4 dead. Reboot in 2012 [Blogomatic 3000]
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Posted to Other on 12 January 2010
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