Tuesday, 15 February 2011

Spider-Man

Richard Voyce from the Librettists Workshop sent this along. When will they ever pay attention?

The Chicago Tribune: “The much-told woes of ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark’ boil down to a problem that has similarly ensnared far humbler new musicals: an incoherent story. For without a book with consistent rules that a mainstream audience can follow and track, without characters in whom one can invest emotionally, without a sense of the empowering optimism that should come from time spent in the presence of a good, kind man who can walk up buildings and save our lousy world from evil, it is all just clatter and chatter.”