Given the rather unfortunate precedent set by the Spiderman stage-show, and the perceived limitations of any stage-based production of something requiring special effects, it was always going to be interesting to see how Batman Live would fair when it opened recently in Manchester. Personally I resisted those early reviews, knowing my time would come when the £12m stage show reached Newcastle’s Metro Arena as the second stop on its nationwide tour, and when that time came – Wednesday 27th July – I would find out myself whether that huge budget had been wisely invested.
In all honesty, it didn’t exactly start all that well, with a high-wire exchange between Batman and Catwoman looking and feeling a little awkward as they slow-motion “flew” at one another in harnesses in a manner that entirely unintentionally suggested parody. At the time, had the show continued in that manner I might not have survived...
In all honesty, it didn’t exactly start all that well, with a high-wire exchange between Batman and Catwoman looking and feeling a little awkward as they slow-motion “flew” at one another in harnesses in a manner that entirely unintentionally suggested parody. At the time, had the show continued in that manner I might not have survived...
- 8/7/2011
- by Simon Gallagher
- Obsessed with Film
Batman is packing up his Batmobile and hitting the road.
As Broadway's Spider-Man musical hangs from a thin web, the Caped Crusader is getting his own live stage show, a traveling world tour called "Batman Live." Beginning this July in Manchester, the show was conceived by the creator of "Walking With Dinosaurs," and boasts one of Lady Gaga's costume designers.
"What it is really is rock and roll," choreographer Anthony Van Laast, said at the launch (via the Guardian). "Almost all of us come from a rock and roll background, we know we can fill an arena, we can do the whizz bangs and the special effects - all we needed was a really good yarn as the backbone of the show, and we've got that. It's not a musical."
Nick Court will play Batman, while Emma Clifford plays Catwoman. Robin will apear, as well, and villains include The Joker,...
As Broadway's Spider-Man musical hangs from a thin web, the Caped Crusader is getting his own live stage show, a traveling world tour called "Batman Live." Beginning this July in Manchester, the show was conceived by the creator of "Walking With Dinosaurs," and boasts one of Lady Gaga's costume designers.
"What it is really is rock and roll," choreographer Anthony Van Laast, said at the launch (via the Guardian). "Almost all of us come from a rock and roll background, we know we can fill an arena, we can do the whizz bangs and the special effects - all we needed was a really good yarn as the backbone of the show, and we've got that. It's not a musical."
Nick Court will play Batman, while Emma Clifford plays Catwoman. Robin will apear, as well, and villains include The Joker,...
- 4/13/2011
- by Jordan Zakarin
- Huffington Post
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