Lio by Mark Tatulli for May 04, 2014

Lio’s the only one there that’s not a captive audience.

Hey, what’s this in the far corner? SOME PIG? What the heck does that mean?

Knockout performance by the Spider in the lead rôle! This show haas definite Broadway prospects!

Spider’s version of dinner theatre?

Not bad Lio.

Okay, it’s cute but it violates one of my most hated comic conventions. How do the web strands defy gravity? In reality the arcs should slack to the ground, not always toward the center of the web. Anyone else ever notice this convention?

I’m going to show this to my house spiders, give them some pointers…

“Playbill” is a thing found in New York—maybe other big cities—which is a magazine combined with a theatre program. The magazine part has theatre news and fluffy bits like, “Idina Menzel talks about her favorite restaurants”, each theatre does its own program pages, and the Playbill company sells the ads and does the printing, instead of burdening someone on the theatre staff with non-theatrical work. Everybody wins out.

Looks more like “Kiss of the Spider Woman.”

Reminds me of the Spider character in the ‘GORDO’ comic strip. Now THATS going back aways. early to mid ’60s.

Lord of the Flies?