Plus that “Total Eclipse of the Heart” song obviously only works in German.
Production very publicly fell apart months before the show opened, and Steinman himself described opening night as “a fat lady with a sign on her back that said, ‘Kick me!'” Audience and critics agreed on the kicking, and punted the show all the way back to Europe.
The All-Star Spider-Man Musical That Didn’t Feel So Good
The longest falls start out the highest, and Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark started out on the top of the world. Just like 1600, the musical was a team-up worthy of a comic book cover: Bono and The Edge would do the music, The Lion King‘s Julie Taymor would write and direct, and Marvel would consult on how to make the story of an angsty teenager in a bright red bodystocking even more theatrical.
“That’s crazy talk. Get out of here!”
People were so excited that the show wound up with the single biggest budget in Broadway history — over $75 million, nearly three times the cost of #2 on the list, which is Shrek! The Musical, because of course it is. The dump trucks of money got funneled into enormous creations of rigging and webbing that weren’t just there so Spidey could swing around on stage, but so the Green Goblin could reveal his evil plan of dropping a giant piano from the top of the Chrysler Building, and so the mythological spider woman Arachne could appear in a giant web.
Like you might guess from those examples, the musical was convoluted as a comic book, since all the talent and money involved meant people just kept throwing more ideas on the pile. Most big musicals do a month or so of previews before opening to work out the last few kinks, but previews for the nonsensically-titled Turn Off The Dark lasted more than half a year as the story was constantly rewritten, big egos clashed, and performers kept racking up injuries from all the elaborate, dangerous stunt equipment.
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