Broadway Review: Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark

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🗓️ 7 March 2011

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Turn of the Dark, Turn on the Podcast These days, when Marvel makes headlines in 2011, it isn’t for Thor or Captain America. It's for a Broadway musical that seemed determined to crash harder than Gwen Stacy. Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark arrived with Bono and The Edge writing the songs, Julie Taymor of The Lion King producing, and a budget that keeps climbing as cast members keep falling. The show remains "in previews" just to try and staunch the flow of bad press, but this Broadway bomb has become infamous before most people ever saw it. But what about the fans? Marjorie, Arnie, and Stuart attended one of these preview performances to see the spectacle for themselves. Is this ambitious, aerial Spider-show a misunderstood marvel or a web of chaos? They’re here with an unfiltered, first-hand report. So Turn off the Dark... turn up the volume!{Spider-Man Series}

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0:00.0	I'm Marjorie.
0:19.7	I'm Arne.
0:20.7	So joining us now is Stuart. Hello, Stuart. Hey, guys. Where am I? That's because we kidnapped you, took you to New York, and made you go see Spider-Man turn off. Wait, no, you are Stewart in L.A. And you intentionally flew to New York just to see Spider-Man turn off the dark. That's more hardcore than us. We were in New York
0:39.2	anyway for our Toy Fair coverage. Yeah, I'm not going to cop to indignity about this sounded like a
0:46.0	bad idea or anything. I couldn't wait to see this show. I was so afraid that this show would
0:51.9	close before I had the opportunity to see it.
0:54.7	And I blame everything on Carrie the musical.
0:56.8	Way back in the 80s, for three days, Broadway opened the Stephen King Carrie as a musical.
1:02.6	You know what Shelley calls her?
1:05.2	Shelly calls her Scary White.
1:06.9	I just call a stupid witch.
1:09.7	That's enough.
1:11.6	Scary White! Oh, God, enough, please. Scary white! Don't love it!
1:12.6	Scary white!
1:13.6	That's not my name!
1:14.6	That's not my name.
1:32.0	And it is notoriously Broadway's worst show ever produced, and I've been envious ever since then about wanting to be able to see Broadway's worst show and missing Carrie.
1:42.3	And when I found out they were doing a Spider-Man musical and all of the problems that have been well publicized, I think, at this point.
1:49.3	I insisted on coming out and was happy to meet you guys in New York for this show.
1:54.5	So why would you fly across the country and pay a ridiculous theater ticket price to see something you knew would be deliciously bad.
2:03.7	Doesn't that answer itself? Or maybe that explains a lot about my taste that, you know,
2:09.0	yes, I like culture. I like theater. I like good performances. I like a lot of drama. I don't
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