First of all…tempting fate by opening on March 15 was always a lousy idea. Even key cast members weren’t sanguine over the notion of opening on the Ides of March. How do I know? Reeve Carney, Broadway’s “Peter Parker” and a really nice guy, told me. Where’d I encounter him? At the Broadway Bears auction on Sunday. (Sorry the picture’s a little blurry; lighting wasn’t the greatest).
The announced push back comes as no surprise (although the reports of Julie Taymor supposedly departing are startling.) Anything that could be done to fix the show before March 15 would have been mere bandaids, and what the show really needed for long-term health is a tourniquet, which is what a several month delay at this point amounts to. By all reports, the second act is still a major problem (and the bizarre number about shoes remains in place for no explicable reason.) But the assertions that the show can’t be fixed are simply wrong. There’s nothing in the script that can’t be repaired. To me the delay just shows that they’re determined to do what needs to be done so that the story and score is able to match the much higher quality of the visuals.
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