Written by Arya Ponto
Tuesday, twelve April 2011
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Fear that the upcoming Batman Live stage tour will mirror the disastrous Spider-man: Flip Off the Dark Broadway show was addressed these days when the production unveiled the cast and costume in an exceedingly media launch in London. At the very least, they're already doing 3 things right: the script is written by a comic book writer, it's no newly created-up villain, and Bono is nowhere close to this thing.
Yes, as the producers keep stressing, this will not be a musical like Turn Off the Dark, despite being directed by Anthony Van Laast, who's famous for choreographing musicals like Mamma Mia!, Sister Act and Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat. Not that I actually have anything against a Batman musical (Hey, The Brave and also the Bold did it brilliantly), however it's in all probability better for this production to target stunts and awes rather than songs, and to draw as much distinction as doable from one in every of the largest trainwrecks in Broadway history.
In the video below, watch as Joker introduces the other villains, before having his monologue interrupted by you-grasp-who.
The actor will a fairly good Joker. The body language of Cesar Romero combined with the deep, lip-smacking voice of Heath Ledger? As way as Joker actings go, a lot of worse have return and gone.
The media launch also showed the concept styles for what the sector can look like, as well as this pretty badass miniature Gotham City. Other sets include Arkham Asylum (naturally), Penguin's Iceberg Lounge, Wayne Manor, the Batcave, and the big Prime circus scene where Dick Grayson's parents tragically die, pushing him to become Batman's sidekick Robin. On high of the sets, the show additionally options a whole new style of the Batmobile, concocted by Formula One designer Gordon Murray.
All this, for less than one/three of Flip Off the Dark's budget.
The hardest factor to abdomen, and is possible to be the primary gripe individuals can fixate on, is the look of Batman and Robin's costumes, that are too shut to Joel Schumacher for comfort. Don't let it shadow the whole production, though, because A) They don't have nipples, and B) No one has yet to drag off a satisfactory and convincing live-action Batman costume, anyway. Even in Batman Begins, it absolutely was a lot of like Fat and Cannot Breathe Leather Man Begins, which they then had to turn into a dirtbike get-up in The Dark Knight.
Speaking of—one of my initial worries when this was announced was that they would attempt to piggyback off of the Christopher Nolan movies, however it looks like they're going for a a lot of colourful, comic book look. Some Batman fans can insist that Batman will only be portrayed in an exceedingly dark and edgy urban crime context, that is soliciting for a betrayal of the character's wealthy history.
It's a good issue that, despite Nolan's insistence on Batman being a lone vigilante, the show isn't sidelining Robin's existence. Far from it: the story actually centers on Dick Grayson's journey into becoming Robin. Sadly, for no matter reason, they'd to form him an older teen a la Batman Forever, rather than a ten-year-old child.
The target Robin makes sense knowing the writer, Allan Heinberg. Heinberg has had success as a TV author on shows like Sex & the City, The OC and Grey's Anatomy, however is best known to comic fans as a writer on Wonder Woman and, additional importantly, as the creator of Young Avengers. He's no stranger to the approaching-of-age stories of teenage superheroism.
It's a neat plan, very. Batman, Joker, and every one the opposite villains can be iconic and set in place, however have the audience align with Dick, who sees these folks as the mythic figures they are and has to enter that world.
The show premieres July 19 in Manchester.
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