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‘Spider-Man’ Still Flying High on Broadway

Friday, May 31, 2013 at 5:08 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I was among those who not only panned the puerility of turning the derring-dos of a comic-book hero into a Broadway show, but also ridiculed the technical difficulties producers had trying to replicate them on stage. Last night’s opening preview of Broadway’s most expensive production ever, Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, was an epic flop… Read more.

Spider-Man … on Broadway?!

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 at 5:09 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

I don’t know who came up with the harebrained idea of turning Spider-Man into a Broadway musical. But for some reason – that must be equal parts egotistical and masochistic – Tony Award-winning director Julie Taymor of Lion King fame eventually teamed up with rock-n-roll übermenschen Bono and The Edge of U2 to stage it under the… Read more.