As posted yesterday, the Spider-Man film franchise has hit a snag...but guess what's suddenly back in action.The New York Post has reported that Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the most expensive (and ill-conceived) show in Broadway history, is set to open this fall, months past its original date of March. The roller coaster saga of this piece of shit continues!
The musical ran aground when David Garfinkle, its inexperienced and inept lead producer, failed to come with financing. Musical contributor Bono enlisted his longtime business partner, Michael Cohl, to clean up the mess. Financing is now in place, and big a chunk coming from Disney (bailing out a high profile piece of their newly acquired property, Marvel Comics). The show will likely begin previews in September and open in November. Refunds are now available for people who bought tickets for performances this spring and do not want to exchange them for new dates in the fall.
Spider-Man will cost about $1 million a week to produce -- hundreds of thousands of dollars more than elaborate shows like Mary Poppins and West Side Story -- and require the 1,700-seat Hilton Theatre to sell out for every show for four years just to break even. Relative newcomer Reeve Carney has been cast in the lead, while Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming will play Mary Jane and Green Goblin.
In less than 24 hours, the franchise hit the reset button and the showtunes version came back to life. Would you say there was something more than a coincidence here?
I've got my suspicions...
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