He explains, "It is only our 17th opening night, sir. [65] Soon thereafter, Taymor left the production. ", "Broadway's 'Spider-Man': The Full Story", "A Broadway Superlative for All the Wrong Reasons", "Spider-Man Musical to Take Gotham in Upcoming Reading", "Bono’s $31 Million '‘Spider-Man'’ Delays Rehearsals, Opening Date", "‘Spider-Man’ Starts to Emerge From Secrecy", "'Spider-Man' musical sets 2010 Broadway opening date", "Could Spider-Man the Musical be the 'biggest disaster in Broadway history'? Miss Arrow contends that Peter Parker isn't actually the first person to become a spider. [45] In addition, the show's unusually high running costs were reported to be about $1 million per week. Music from and Inspired by Spider-Man 3 is a soundtrack album to Sam Raimi's 2007 film Spider-Man 3. After telling Mary Jane that he will always love her, Peter takes a walk and realizes that he needs to be a hero not only for Mary Jane but for the world ("The Boy Falls From the Sky"). Peter engages the Goblin in combat, but before he can finish him the Goblin reveals that he has Mary Jane, who now dangles from the Chrysler Building. As Peter sleeps one night, Arachne invades his dreams. Suddenly, the power goes out; then the walls of the club come alive with the image of the Green Goblin, apparently alive and wreaking havoc. Also, at the end of The Simpsons episode "Treehouse of Horror XXII", a hospital is filled with injured cast members. [74][75] The December 20 performance was ended prematurely. It also includes the addition of Chase Brock for additional choreography and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa for additional writing. Peter has a crush on his popular next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson, but they both have unhappy lives: Mary Jane has an abusive father and suffers at home while Peter suffers the torment of bullies at school ("No More"). The Green Goblin, not realizing this, thrusts the piano over the side of the Chrysler Building, taking him down to his death. [45] Meanwhile, the musical was eventually scheduled to open at the Foxwoods Theatre on February 18, 2010, but the production was delayed again until fundraising could be completed. [51] In March, Cohl and Harris said they shut down previews because they felt "the story needed some work, the songs needed some work, and the sound needed some work", and that they "were going to concentrate on those three areas over the next three and a half weeks." Spider-Man then recovers his costume from the Daily Bugle and goes after the Green Goblin. [90], Most of the major theater critics published their reviews of the first version on February 7, 2011; nearly all of them were strongly negative in tone. She agrees to stand by him as sirens begin wailing and Peter swings away ("Finale"). Arachne convinces him to run a headline pronouncing Spider-Man a needed hero, and he does. All 92 songs from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) movie soundtrack, with scene descriptions. Visit Tunefind for music from your favorite TV shows and movies. "[16] Radio and TV talkshow host Glenn Beck championed the production after attending the preview showings several times. Despite the previous Broadway success of their Disney Theatrical Productions subsidiary, Disney made no move to assume control of Spider-Man, or help the production financially. [66] The New York Post columnist Michael Riedel opined that month that the musical would be short-lived: "Depending on how much more money its backers are willing to lose, my hunch is that 'Spider-Man' will stagger through the spring, pick up with the tourist traffic in the summer and then collapse in the fall. [72] When Carpio was injured in March 2011 and withdrew from the show for two weeks, Olivo performed the role again. Mendoza later felt ill, and America Olivo, her understudy, played the role during her nearly two-week absence. She devises a plan to bring Spider-Man back by having all of his former enemies descend on the city at once. [24][43] On August 31, 2009, The Walt Disney Company announced plans to buy Marvel Comics. [73], In that December 20 preview, Tierney fell 21 feet (6.4 m) off a piece of scenery when his harness was not connected to the safety cord, leaving him to freefall through the stage and into the orchestra pit. Now Arachne is cursed to wander the universe and weave her web for all eternity. 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Meanwhile, Norman Osborn begins thinking that Spider-Man stole his research as the military organization Viper Worldwide presses him to accelerate his project ("Pull the Trigger"). [101], The New York Times' Patrick Healy stated in February 2011 that Spider-Man had become "a national object of pop culture fascination—more so, perhaps, than any show in Broadway history" due to media coverage and late-night comedians' monologues on the musical's many delays, injuries, and creative issues. World") to make the world a more perfect place and shows off his prime specimen: a large female spider. Unfortunately his new powers don't impress Mary Jane, who drives off with Flash in his new car. "[11] The Edge stated that he is unsure of what description to use for the production, because "It is elements of rock and roll, it's elements of circus, it's elements of opera, [and] of musical theater. The show has twice appeared on Late Show with David Letterman. Both teenagers long for escape ("No More"). For the 1997 album. MJ becomes completely fed up with Peter's constant lateness and disregard for her after he does not show up for her new play ("Walk Away"). [54] It included $9.7 million for sets and costumes, $4.4 million to rent the Foxwoods Theatre for two years before performances began, and $2.2 million for flying equipment. Really? The machine goes haywire and Osborn's wife is killed, while he is transformed into the Green Goblin. If victorious, he tells Spider-Man that "maybe it would have helped if [he] turned off the dark!"[118]. She finds her own humanity and spares MJ's life. [74] He returned to the show for rehearsals on April 25, 2011[80] and performed in the show on opening night. After class ends, Peter's ex-best friend Flash Thompson and his gang gleefully torment the straight A student ("Bullying by Numbers"). [76][77] After rehearsals for stricter safety procedures involving the harnesses, the show resumed with the evening performance on December 23. Simpsons Super Spectacular issue #14 features a parody musical featuring Bart Simpson's favorite superhero Radioactive Man. Talk about dodging a bullet there! Devastated, Arachne hanged herself, but Athena took pity on Arachne and transformed her into the world's first spider. During the contest, Arachne created blasphemous images of the gods. [96] In his review of the revised version, Brantley wrote, "So is this ascent from jaw-dropping badness to mere mediocrity a step upward? It was released on April 22, 2014, through Columbia Records and Madison Gate Records.