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  4. I don't know if this has been posted.

    This is from atu2.com about the Spiderman Musical, apparently it sucks.

    Dec201022
    Rashas W.
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    Broadway chorus: Shut down ‘Spiderman’!

    Several Broadway actors are asking that the production be closed, according to the New York Post:

    Broadway actors were singing the same chorus yesterday: Shut down “Spider-Man”!

    Several stars took to Twitter and Facebook in disgust after stuntman Christopher Tierney, 31, plummeted 30 feet during a preview of “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark” Monday night.

    Tierney — who remained in serious condition with broken ribs at Bellevue last night — is the fourth actor to be injured in the trouble-plagued, $65 million show.

    “Does someone have to die?” Tony-winning actress Alice Ripley blasted on Twitter, questioning why producers are letting the show go on. “Where is the line for the decision makers, I am curious.”

    “Spider-Man should be ashamed of itself,” the “Next to Normal” star continued. “This is completely unacceptable and embarrassing to working actors everywhere.”

    Veteran “Rent” leading man Adam Pascal didn’t mince words on Facebook, tearing into director Julie Taymor and U2′s Bono and The Edge, who wrote the score.

    “They should put Julie Taymor in jail for assault!” he raged.

    “I hope [Tierney] is ok and sues the shit out of Julie, Bono, Edge and every other arsehole who invested in that steaming pile of actor crippling shit”

    Marc Kudisch, of “9 to 5,” wrote on Facebook, “I wish employment for all my friends. But I wish them safety and security in their employment even more.”


    Fourth Actor Injured During Spider-Man Monday Night
    Posted: December 20, 2010
    By: Sherry Lawrence

    Several sources, including local New York Fox Televsion and The New York Times, are reporting that a Spider-Man actor fell after a cable allegedly snapped with seven minutes left in Act II during Monday night's performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Eyewitnesses at the scene said there was screaming in the theater after the incident. The theater went dark and the audience was asked to leave. Ambulances arrived around 10:45 p.m., taking the injured actor to Bellevue Hospital in New York City.

    The show's official Twitter feed, @SpideyOnBway, states "An actor sustained an injury at tonight's performance of Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark...He fell several feet from a platform approximately seven minutes before the end of the performance, and the show was stopped...All signs were good as he was taken to the hospital for observation. We will have more news shortly."

    Broadwayworld.com is reporting "We're told via a stagehand that this was NOT a flying sequence and that Spider-Man was NOT supposed to drop at all. He was supposed to run to top of the ramp as if to jump with the lights then set to go to black. The cable snapped is what stops him from going over the edge, and that is what failed."

    12/21 UPDATE: The actor injured was Christopher Tierney, Spider-Man's primary aerialist. He performs as Spider-Man as well as the villains Kraven and Meeks. He is currently in stable condition. It is also being reported that he landed on his feet after the fall. (UPDATE: Broadwayworld.com is reporting that he suffered broken ribs and bleeding after the fall.) ABC's Good Morning America featured this accident during its morning news program. The New York Times has audience video of the accident. The lights go out while Tierney falls.

    Actors' Equity released this statement: "Actors' Equity Association is working with management and the Department of Labor to ensure that performances will not resume until back-up safety measures are in place." Contrary to ABC's report, there is no performance this evening. There is no word about tomorrow's two performances.

  5. If there's serious injuries like that, for safety reasons it may have to be shut down. I'd shut the whole thing down and find out why this is happening.

    It's almost reminding me of Superman...every actor that played that role was injured in some way.

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/40763942
  6. Totally agree with you Drew.

    Of course we want to see the hole thing happening, but it needs to happen safely. Also think they should make sure everything is working well before go on with the show, but stuff like this always will happen.

  8. Does traindo mean cheated?
  9. Yep. To cheat on somebody (Morleigh in this case)...
  11. Yeh it doesn't look especially bad, we'll see how it pans out I suppose
  12. Google Translater:

    [Scandal] The Edge cheating on Morleigh with a woman and then ..

    It could be one of his daughters (the Arran or Blue), but it seems not.

    Look there another angle ... Hand in hand and all ...



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