Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark

We already knew the musical Spider-Man: Turn off The Dark is going to be closing on Broadway this January, but its financial difficulties go beyond "middling" ticket sales, as producer Jeremiah J. Harris put it. In total, the show is on track to lose a staggering $60 million. Investors are reportedly furious.

Spider-Man has spun his last web on Broadway. Two-and-a-half years after it officially opened, lagging ticket sales are bringing Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark to a close in January 2014. But the show isn't ending entirely, according to producer Jeremiah J. Harris. A "revamped version" of the show will open in Las Vegas in 2015.

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The many troubles of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have been fairly well chronicled in news reports over the past three years or so (including a few on this very website), but according new tell-all book by Glen Berger, we barely know the half of it.

It's like it's 2011 all over again. Just days after Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark director Philip William McKinley told the LA Times "our safety plans are higher than any other show on Broadway," 23-year-old cast member and dancer Daniel Curry seriously injured his leg during a Thursday night performance when it got pinned under some equipment.

W While the production drama associated with the Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has seemingly passed, it seems that legal battles associated with the Broadway musical haven't been put to rest just yet. Former Turn off the Dark director Julie Taymor's lawsuit against producing company, 8 Legged Productions, now has an official court date...

If you've been patiently waiting for years to get the inside scoop of what actually happened behind the scenes on troubled superhero musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, your wait is almost over. The playwright who worked with Bono and the Edge to write the show has sold a book about his experience to Simon & Schuster.Gle...

It's been almost two years since the troubled Spider-Man musical, Turn Off The Dark, opened for previews for the first time, giving audiences a glimpse at a show at once ambitious and (dangerously) ill-considered. It's been just shy of eighteen months since original director Julie Taymor was ousted from the production amid last-minute revisions and rewrites...

Gaming: New screens from Transformers: Fall of Cybertron show Optimus Prime, Grimlock and other favorites in action. Legal: After being sued by Julie Taymor, the current producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark are suing the fired former director right back...

I don't know how crazy you guys got ringing in 2012, but I took it pretty easy on the adult beverages myself (I didn't even have any comic book cocktails). That's why when I awoke on Sunday to confirm Anderson Cooper was kidnapped by the Green Goblin on CNN's New Year's Eve special, I wondered if perhaps my $6 bottle of champagne from Trader Joes had been more potent than I'd realized...