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Julie Taymor

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Book WriterDirector b. 1952

Visually inventive director who transformed The Lion King into a theatrical spectacle.

Also credited on2 works

The Lion King
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature8 passages

  • Julie Taymor. She was standing near the doors that led out to Forty-third Street. She wasn’t going to come at all tonight, which was boggling. Yet understandable. And, in being understandable, even more boggling. It had been three months since I’d last seen her, and the rush of old, cozy feelings smacked against The New Reality, and the i…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • Julie Taymor despises me with photograph-shredding rage. Or so I hear. Though maybe by now she’s past caring. After all, it’s been thirty months since that last phone call; that last lit match on a kerosene-doused relationship, six years of collaboration KAFWOOOSH! . . .ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • I n 2005, my friend Jules was working as Julie Taymor’s personal assistant. I learned through her that Julie and the producers had begun searching for a new writer. Or rather, a new co writer. To avoid being disappointed a second time, Julie was going to get more involved in the generation of Spider-Man’s story and dialogue (known as the…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • So I didn’t submit a scene. Instead, I turned in a treatise explaining why I wouldn’t be submitting a scene. I raged, I rambled, I explained Julie Taymor’s entire career to her. I spewed half-baked ideas for ten dense pages and ended it all with “Or perhaps not. Anyway, it’s a thought.” It read like I was on drugs.ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • In this economy, everybody’s tightening their belts. Everybody, that is, but Julie Taymor. The genius director has never met a budget she didn’t blow right past. Case in point: Spider-Man, whose budget has ballooned to $40 million, making it the most expensive production in theater history. Some of the people involved are starting to blan…ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt
  • Julie then spoke warmly of Bono and Edge before calling them onto the stage amid hugs and starstruck applause. Edge and Bono swore that without Julie Taymor, they would never have thrown their hats into the ring.ebooks/Berger, Glen/Song of Spider-Man_ The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History - Glen Berger.txt

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