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This Woman Has Seen The Spider-Man Musical 200 Times On Purpose
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Garth Johnston
Published Feb 4, 2013
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Masochism, meet your mascot! After presumably losing a sick bet with Andrew Lloyd Weber, a young woman named Christine Antosca has now seen Broadway's Bono-fied disaster Spider-Man: Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown Turn Off The Darka mind-numbing 200 times. 200 times! Think about that. No, really THINK about that. Having seen the show twice (for journalism!) we simply don't get it. You'd have to pay us at least the price of a ticket to see that dreck again. 200 times! Perhaps Antosca thinks she is trapped in some sort of Groundhog Day loop and nobody has the heart to tell her otherwise?
Because really! Even back in the height of Rent-mania the Rentheads weren't doing these kinds of numbers. 200! That is nearly one-fifth of the show's entire run (so far it has 182 previews and 675 performances). And she's paying for those performances herself! Even more incredible, according to the show's press team she is paying for those tickets on a Starbuck's barista salary. What could she possibly see in this show in her 200th viewing that she missed the first time? It can't be the nuances in Bono and The Edge's score. And it can't be the high school drama-level acting. Or what remains of Julie Taymor's troubled staging. Or really anything we can think of? Maybe she's just really hoping for the return of the blood? Or likes getting jizzed on for the cameras? Because 200 times! 200!
Sigh. Apparently not everyone was as concerned about Ms. Antosca's obvious cry for help as we were though, because instead of, y'know, putting her in an institution—or at least forcing her to listen to the complete works of Stephen Sondheim a few times—the show went and "presented her with her own seat" this past Sunday. So don't you fools even think about touching aisle seat AA106. That is all Christine's.
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