Friday, March 04, 2011

This is How to Advertise a Play

Spider-man: Turn off the Dark is an on-Braodway play featuring music by people like Bono and The Edge. It is the highest costing play to ever be performed due to all kinds of things. The main one is what we will be touching on today. The Technical stunts such as actors swinging from "webs" and several aerial combat scenes.

Why are we going to talk about this, and why is my title so sarcastic (yes it is sarcasm so don't get so angry)?

Well...the show has suffered a few more safety violations, and they will be fined $12,600 for them. A production that costs upwards of $65 million isn't going to be phased by such a fee, but it is actually advertising. Could be worth the cost until someone gets hurt. Oh wait...did someone actually get hurt?

The citations stem from four instances last year in which cast members of the Broadway musical were hurt, including one in which an actor, Christopher Tierney, sustained broken ribs and a hairline skull fracture, among other injuries, when he plunged, untethered, from a platform on stage.

Well then. I guess this isn't a joking matter. Of course I am guessing that some are secretly happy for the free publicity that makes the show seem dangerous and all the lookie loos workign manufacturing jobs and not getting the kind of scratch these guys get will want to see for themselves.

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