After you couldn’t get a ticket to ‘Spider-Man’ and you’ve offered a kidney for it, go see ‘Wicked.’ I mean, you’ve got two kidneys. Don’t give both kidneys up — go see ‘Wicked’ before you give both kidneys. But give a kidney to go see ‘Spider-Man.’ I’m telling you, mark my words, it’s being panned right now, nobody’s saying good stuff about it. I’m telling you, you go buy your ticket — you buy your ticket now, if you’re thinking about coming to New York, because when this thing opens and it’s starting to run, you will not be able to get tickets to this for a year. This is one of those shows, this is the ‘Phantom’ of the 21st century. This is history of Broadway being made. I sat next to the casting director, by chance, and I said, ‘You, sir, are part of history.’”
Beck also praised the show for its “kooky portrayal of scientists who are preoccupied with global warming," and in addressing those who have “panned” it, Beck adopted a mock French accent—the better to deride them as snobs who refuse, on snobby principle, to recognize a show featuring rock music (much like the way they snubbed American Idiot, Rent, Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, Jesus Christ Superstar, etc.) about a comic-book character that further “cheapen[s] the theater by spending $50 million” as "real theater." In other words, “all the snotty stuff that regular Americans won’t understand.” (So, this premature harping about how Spider-Man sacrifices the safety of its performers to feed its over-budget corporate machine… Broadway blood libel?) We can't wait to hear Beck's review of The Book Of Mormon.
