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March 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Bono, 51, and his wife, fellow Irish humanitarian Alison Stewart, 50, are
longstanding friends of Ms Turlington, 43, who has modelled for Calvin Klein
and Giorgio Armani. Bono walked her down the aisle at her 2001 wedding in
lieu of her father, who had died three years earlier.
Addressing the allegations made in Mr Berger’s email, Rick Miramontez – a
spokesman for the show’s producers and for Bono and The Edge – told The
Sunday Telegraph that the parties “won’t even dignify them with a
response.”
“The producers are sorry that Julie filed this suit and do not believe it
is in the best interests of the show or the people involved with it. They
continue to believe an amicable resolution would be better for everyone –
including Taymor,” he added.
Her Taymor’s legal papers set the scene for an epic courtroom showdown and
contain allegations that step up the pressure for a solution ahead of next
year’s scheduled trial.
“The producers’ effort to hold Taymor responsible for damages for failing
to make improvements to the show as an author ignores the reality that the
conduct of Bono and Edge – the musical’s other primary creative team members
– severely hampered timely improvements to the musical,” her legal
papers allege.
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is based on the Marvel comic-strip
superhero and on the plot and characters featured in the 2002 film,
Spider-Man, in which Tobey Maguire starred as Peter Parker, a
student-turned-crimefighter with arachnoid abilities.
Public previews of the stage show began in November 2010 but were poorly
received, leading to five postponements of the show’s official opening amid
creative commotions that included overhauls of songs, scripts and storylines.
There were additional problems with the ambitious suite of aerial stunts, the
highlight of which was to have been a spectacular fight scene set in a $1
million spider’s web suspended from the ceiling of Foxwoods Theatre. Design
failures led to the web’s removal after just one day in situ, as a
result of which “the thrust of the story and the planned clarity and
thrill of the ending of the musical were substantially diminished,” Ms
Taymor states in her lawsuit.
Further woe struck when five performers were injured before the show had even
opened, one breaking his wrists, another breaking his feet and a third
pulling out of the show altogether after she suffered a concussion during
the first public preview. A fourth was forced out of the show for two weeks
with a neck injury and a fifth needed hospital treatment after crashing 20
feet into the orchestra pit due to an unsecured safety harness.
The production was fined by the US Occupational Safety and Health
Administration for three safety violations.
Despite the controversies, Spider-Man:Turn Off the Dark is now one of
the most popular shows on Broadway – less for its score and script, some
critics claim, than for its visually stunning effects and daring aerobatics,
which take place over the audience’s heads.
Ms Taymor, who became the first woman director to win a Tony Award following
her launch of the wildly successful musical The Lion King, filed an
initial lawsuit against Spider-Man’s producers – 8 Legged Productions – last
year, stating that despite their claims to have created a “new”
show since her dismissal in March, it remained largely hers, and that she
wanted a share of its $1 million-a-week purse.
In January the producers counter-sued, alleging that Ms Taymor’s single-minded
creative vision and resistance to change were the problem. “Taymor
refused to develop a musical that followed the original, family-friendly
‘Spider-Man’ story. Instead, Taymor, who admits that she was not a fan of
the Spider-Man story prior to her involvement with the musical, insisted on
developing a dark, disjointed and hallucinogenic musical involving suicide,
sex, and death,” they alleged.
Ms Taymor’s latest legal filing comes in response to that lawsuit. Her court
papers complain that the U2 duo’s touring commitments prevented them giving
proper input into much-needed improvements to the show.
“Bono’s and Edge’s absences caused them to miss all of the musical’s
rehearsals, most of the technical rehearsals and the entire first month of
preview performances – all at great cost to the timely improvements to the
musical that all agreed needed to be made.”
Far from being fired for her own failure to cooperate, as the producers
allege, she was dismissed in order to “appease investors” and sway
critics into believing that the show’s problems had been sorted out and its
format “re-imagined”, she claims.
Dale Cendali, lawyer for the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,
said in a statement issued to The Sunday Telegraph: “It’s very
disheartening for the former director of the show to take no responsibility
for the consequences of her actions while, at the same time, trying to claim
credit for the show’s success.”
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