With SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK's less-than-appealing reviews hitting newsstands this week, the producers of the $65 million giant have sifted through the critiques to find their pull-quotes for marketing.
The pull-quotes are included in a new promotional video on the SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK website. To view the video, click here.
Were the chosen quotes used in context of the original reviews? BroadwayWorld lets you decide by offering the following comparison!
Readers might note that the SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK promo video does not directly associate quotation marks to the phrases attributed to the reviews.
Visually Enchanting... Dazzling - New York Post
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Original quote: "Then again, Arachne gets the single best number, "Behold and Wonder," only a few minutes into the show. As a way to recount her origins, five performers swirl in the air, suspended by saffron-colored sashes as strips of fabric are woven up behind them. The effect is both deceptively simple and visually enchanting."
Original quote from headline: "Dazzling at times and disappointing at others, this giant superhero production is still a tangled web""Bono and The Edge have contributed the stellar songs.
"Bono and The Edge have contributed the stellar songs. SPECTACULAR!" - New Jersey Star-Ledger
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Original quote: "Bono and the Edge have contributed some stellar ballads - songs that evoke the yearning grandeur of U2 - though their more upbeat material tended to be nondescript, and the sound mix throughout the show could have been crisper."
It is not clear where the SPIDER-MAN team found the "SPECTACULAR!" reference. The closest would be one of the following:
Original quote: "The stunts were spectacular: a little wall and ceiling walking. and lots of flying through the entire theater (including the upper balcony). Sometimes, two flying characters even fought with each other. "
Original quote from photo caption: "A scene from the visually spectacular musical, "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark."
"Succeeds thunderously! I was riveted." - New York Magazine
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Original quote #1: "So that's where things stand with Spider-man, on this February 7. As maximalist camp, it succeeds thunderously. Is that what it intends to be? Irrelevant."
Original quote #2: "Yet even in the depths of Spider-man's certifiably insane second act, I was riveted. Riveted, yes, by what was visible onstage: the inverted Fritz Lang cityscapes, the rag doll fly-assisted choreography, the acid-Skittle color scheme and Ditko-era comic-art backdrops. But often I was equally transfixed by the palpable offstage imagination willing it all into existence. See, Spider-man isn't really about Spider-man. It's about an artist locked in a death grapple with her subject, a tumultuous relationship between a talented, tormented older woman and a callow young stud. Strip out the $70 million in robotic guywires, Vari-lites, and latex mummery, and you're basically looking at a Tennessee Williams play."
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