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Spider Monster!

Thanks to Tor.com for the link.

Ok, I have to admit, I'm kinda fascinated, in a train-wreck sorta way, by tonight's opening of the new Spider-Man musical on Broadway, only partly because I have got to wonder why anyone would pay around $76.50 a ticket (and up; yes, the website mentions cheaper tickets but the more reliable Ticketmaster says $76.50) for a show (not counting Ticketmaster fees) for a show that may well not include the last ten minutes (so far, the show has not been performed all the way through) and where the actors/dancers could literally fall on you at any time, not in a purposeful kinda way. (The last was why I loved Cats -- hush, all of you -- although the chances of a dancing cat falling on audience members came nowhere near the chance of the Green Goblin falling on audience members.)

My chances of actually seeing this any time soon are infinitely small, but I admit I will be waiting to see if the show actually, you know, manages to end. It does add a certain something to the Broadway spirit, I guess.