The Saga of Spider-Man
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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