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It almost seems like Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark was a gift from the internet gods. It gave bloggers the easiest target since Jersey Shore. A big budget bloated production with megalomaniac creators that keeps physically hurting people, seriously? Its amazing to look back at these Uproxx headlines surrounding this fiasco. If they turn this thing around, I nominate its cleaner as our next President.
From 11/30/2010 via Gamma Squad
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Is Doing GreatThe Broadway musical directed by Julia Taymor with music by Bono and The Edge staged its first preview performance on Sunday. The production was delayed a year, ballooned to $65 million in costs (the most expensive Broadway show ever), and has running costs of a million dollars a week. Now they’ve finally previewed it, and it doesn’t appear to have gone well. It should be noted the show doesn’t officially open until January 11th 2011, so Sunday’s show may not be indicative of how badly the finished performances will be six weeks from now. That said, let’s laugh at them anyway because we’re horrible. See more
From 12/09/2010 via Gamma Squad
Julie Taymor Defends Spider-Man Musical, And We Make Fun Of It Did you guys hear $65 million Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is doing great? Despite all the setbacks, injuries, bad reviews, and more injuries, Julie Taymor would like you to know the production is going great, even taking cues from Shakespeare and Greek myths, so you know it’s good. Shakespeare had people in it. This has people in it. See? Good. Taymor is attempting to tie Peter Parker to The Greek mythology. Something to due with Peter Parker angering a goddess and being transformed into a spider as punishment. Well, that explains how he got stuck with Kirsten Dunst. See more
From 12/20/2010 via Gamma Squad
Spidey Musical Even More Doomed? Just a quick item continuing our coverage of “Spider-Man: Flip the Light Switch Turn Off The Dark”: it’s even more doomed than we thought! What’s going wrong this time? Well, they’ve decided to delay opening the show for a month to come up with a new final number and maybe, er, what’s a nice way of putting this…totally rewrite a big chunk of the freaking script. It’s getting to the point where this isn’t even funny anymore, it’s that bad. Julie Taymor, who is insane [allegedly], and Bono are completely out of their depth here. That’s patently obvious at this point. Millions in cash and the blood of the cast (well, the bones of the cast; they keep breaking limbs due to the unsafe wirework) have been sacrificed for a show that’s already getting lousy reviews. We’re really not sure what could salvage this show. Well, not sucking, but that seems to be off the table. See more
From 12/21/2010 via Film Drunk
Actor Falls 30 Feet During Spider-Man: Turn Off the DAAAAAAAHH! We’ve been Peter Panning people across the theater stage for like 200 years now, haven’t we? I’m pretty sure they had that at the play where Abe Lincoln died. How do you spend $65 million on a play about Spider-Man and still get that part so wrong? Blame the actors, right? The cable to Tierney’s harness snapped during a scene in which Spider-Man rescues his love interest, Mary Jane, the performer said. It was unclear if Tierney was properly harnessed when the cable snapped. The performer said the show’s actors are responsible for hooking themselves up to harnesses used for aerial stunts. Oh sure, the actors hooking up their own harnesses, that’s a good plan. If a teamster’s truck breaks down on a Zac Efron movie, guess who they don’t call to fix it: Zac Efron. See more
From 12/22/2010 via Gamma Squad
Actors’ Equity Tries, Fails To Halt The Spider-Man Musical On Monday night, aerialist/actor Christopher Tierney fell “approximately 30 feet” when a cable failed during a performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Tierney is in stable condition but remains in the hospital with broken ribs. Actors’ Equity Association (a labor union representing theater actors and stage managers) released a statement yesterday saying they are “working with management and the Department of Labor to ensure that performances will not resume until back-up safety measures are in place.” Sounds like they’re shutting it down, right? Wrong!!! see more
The whole disaster in an awesome animated video
An actress got hurt in rehearsals as well early on btw
Don’t blame magic for this pile of crap.
As with just about everything else nowadays, the problem is too much gay.