Today is my 4th day in college and am looking forward to the rest of my times here. I have wanted to start a blog for a long time but haven't ever done it. They say you should write about what you know. If you know me you know what i am is theatre. The way people know sports statistics, is the way i know about theatre and the people in the business. From time to time i will be posting theatre news, rumors, opinions, pictures and other stuff as well as things having nothing to do with theatre.
The first peice of news i have for you which would be no followers yet is about the upcoming most skeptically anticipated high flying new show that is "Spider-man Turn Off The Dark". Recently news has been heard of that the production has come to a stand-still due to lack of money. Reportedly the budget is close to 40 million dollars. Almost three times the budgets of Wicked in 2005 at 15 million. The musical which is directed by Tony winner Julie Taymor(Lion King on Broadway) and music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, has already seen many problems on its journey to broadway. Recently it has been announced that Disney is purchasing Marvel which is of course the home of Spiderman. It is unknown whether this was the reason for the delay in pre-production efforts or not. According to Variety.com Disney is not expected to contribute much if any to the initial investment of the show. The reason for this is that the name Spider-man and all rights were only being rented to the companies producing.
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More to come later
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