The “Geek Chorus” is going bye-bye.
If you’ve been following the show, I’m sure you’re aware of the “Geek Chorus”, described by the NYT as “a group of comic-book devotees who make up the plot of the musical as it unfolds”. But did you know this?
Ms. Taymor said in an interview this winter that the geeks were based on the four original creators of the musical: Herself (whose geek stand-in is named Miss Arrow), U2’s Bono and the Edge (named Jimmy-6 and Grim Hunter in the show), and the playwright Glen Berger, who wrote the script with Ms. Taymor and who is represented by geek Professor Cobwell. The loss of the geeks, in other words, represents a particularly personal excision of Ms. Taymor from the “Spider-Man” canvas.
Mary Sue, call your office, please.
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