The Saga of Spider-Man

Studio 360
The World

The new Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally opened this week … or actually, not. The producers just fired director Julie Taymor, and previews may be closed for an overhaul. “Those of us who followed Julie Taymor’s career,” says theater critic Jeremy Gerard, “know that she’s a prime example of how limitations make art, not absence of limitations.” With a budget at $70 million and counting, Studio 360’s Eric Molinsky looks at how something so grand went so very wrong.
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