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« on: January 12, 2011, 04:15:56 PM »
By Broadway.com Staff
January 12, 2011 - 6:18PM

Plenty of celebs have been eager to catch the highly talked about Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, so TV and radio host Glenn Beck decided to find out what all the buzz is about for himself. A self-proclaimed Spider-Man and theater fan, the always opinionated chat host took to the airwaves to rave about the new musical extravaganza, going so far as to declare that audiences should "give up a kidney" to catch the show!

"This is better than Wicked!" he proclaimed. "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. But give a kidney to go see Spider-Man!" Take a look below to see Beck's passionate and humorously worded take on the show, which is calls Broadway's best musical ever!

http://tinyurl.com/4n6v7qv
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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2011, 04:45:08 PM »
I really LOVED wicked though!
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2011, 05:48:07 PM »
I could see "WICKED" 100 more times and not get bored of it...  I have read that the "Spider-Man" Musical has had all sorts of pre-show disasters and mishaps.  Rossini's "Barber of Seville" started out with mishaps, but here we are almost 200 years later still enjoying it:) 
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2011, 08:48:51 PM »
Well, that would work for a lot of us, now wouldnt it?
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2011, 11:35:15 PM »
How much you want to bet Beck invested in the show, and that's why he wants people to fly in from all over the country to see it?
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« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2011, 05:59:25 AM »
Is it safe to bet that Glenn Beck still has two kidneys of his own?
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« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2011, 08:33:27 PM »
Quote from: greg10 on January 13, 2011, 05:59:25 AM
Is it safe to bet that Glenn Beck still has two kidneys of his own?
Both kidneys?  yeah, safe bet.

Both hemispheres of his brain?  No takers.
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