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: Turn Off the Dark Broadway show was addressed today when the production unveiled the solid and costume in an exceedingly media launch in London. At the very least, they are already doing three things right: the script is written by a comic book writer, it has no newly made-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 have anything against a Batman musical (Hey, The Brave and the Bold did it brilliantly), but it's most likely better for this production to concentrate on stunts and awes instead of songs, and to draw as abundant distinction as attainable from one in all the biggest trainwrecks in Broadway history.
In the video below, watch as Joker introduces the opposite villains, before having his monologue interrupted by you-understand-who.
The actor does a fairly sensible 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 come back and gone.
The media launch also showed the concept styles for what the world can appear as if, as well as this gorgeous badass miniature Gotham City. Alternative sets embrace Arkham Asylum (naturally), Penguin's Iceberg Lounge, Wayne Manor, the Batcave, and the large Top circus scene where Dick Grayson's folks tragically die, pushing him to become Batman's sidekick Robin. On prime of the sets, the show also options a complete new style of the Batmobile, concocted by Formula One designer Gordon Murray.
All this, for but one/3 of Turn Off the Dark's budget.
The hardest issue to stomach, and is seemingly to be the first gripe people will fixate on, is the look of Batman and Robin's costumes, which are too close to Joel Schumacher for comfort. Do not let it shadow the full production, though, because A) They don't have nipples, and B) No one has nevertheless to tug off a satisfactory and convincing live-action Batman costume, anyway. Even in Batman Begins, it had been more like Fat and Cannot Breathe Leather Man Begins, which they then had to flip into a dirtbike get-up in The Dark Knight.
Speaking of—one amongst my initial worries when this was announced was that they would attempt to piggyback off of the Christopher Nolan movies, however it appearance like they're going for a additional colourful, comic book look. Some Batman fans can insist that Batman can only be portrayed in a dark and edgy urban crime context, that is soliciting for a betrayal of the character's wealthy history.
It's a smart thing that, despite Nolan's insistence on Batman being a lone vigilante, the show is not sidelining Robin's existence. So much from it: the story actually centers on Dick Grayson's journey into turning into Robin. Sadly, for whatever reason, they'd to create him an older teen a la Batman Forever, instead of a ten-year-old kid.
The concentrate on Robin makes sense knowing the author, Allan Heinberg. Heinberg has had success as a TV author on shows like Sex & the City, The OC and Grey's Anatomy, but is best known to comic fans as a author on Wonder Woman and, a lot of importantly, as the creator of Young Avengers. He's no stranger to the coming-of-age stories of teenage superheroism.
It's a neat plan, very. Batman, Joker, and every one the other villains can be iconic and set in place, however have the audience align with Dick, who sees these people because the mythic figures they are and has to enter that world.
The show premieres July nineteen in Manchester.
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