Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)
Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)
Joining me today to discuss one of the most disastrous Broadway Musicals ever - Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell
There are Broadway musicals that become legends…
…and then there are Broadway musicals that become infamous cautionary tales.
From the creators of The Lion King and the visionary minds of Bono and The Edge came a musical so ambitious… so expensive… so unbelievably cursed…
…it made critics beg for intermission.
Budget problems. Flying accidents. Preview delays.
I could go on… so I will…
Six directors. Millions over budget.
And enough backstage panic to power all of Times Square.
This wasn’t just a musical.
It was a catastrophe with merchandise.
This is the unbelievable true story of the big budget Broadway musical disaster -
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.
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