If you've been dying to see what Julie Taymor's version of Spider-Man: Requiem For A Dream Turn Off The Dark is actually like, this is your last chance. The show goes dark for a rewrite after Sunday's performance and won't be back until May 12 (the latest "opening" date is June 14). And there are tickets still available—who knows, maybe somebody will get stuck again!
So what's going to be different when the show reopens? According to the Times, a whole lot. The Green Goblin, who currently dies in the first act, now lives on into the second, the "Geek Chorus" is already gone, the Taymor-created villainess Arachne is being cut back and turned into "a kind of guardian angel" and, presumably, much more.
So how does the deposed Julie Taymor feel about all this? Her spokesperson put out this statement: “Julie feels that the early reviews that published before the show was ready to open sadly do not reflect the show that is closing this weekend. Most critics, in fact, will have never seen this latest version before they see one that greatly changes major threads of the story, choreography and songs.”
So, uh, catch it if you can?
