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** David Garfinkle's producing career ended with this show.[[note]]He was supposed to be learning the ins and outs of producing under the tutelage of Tony Adams, the original lead producer. Then Adams died of a sudden stroke and Garfinkle ended up having to figure things out for himself, to disastrous results.[[/note]]
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** David Garfinkle's producing career began and ended with this show.[[note]]He was supposed to be learning the ins and outs of producing under the tutelage of Tony Adams, the original lead producer. Then Adams died of a sudden stroke and Garfinkle ended up having to figure things out for himself, to disastrous results.[[/note]]
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* ActingForTwo: The ensemble plays multiple roles depending on the scene, with every actor except the mains having multiple parts.
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** During the 2.0 run, Patrick Page suggested the Green Goblin kill a reporter to gain back some of the menace lost after "A Freak Like Me Needs Company," but they couldn't get the actor's body offstage without making it looks sexual, so it was cut.
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** During the 2.0 run, Patrick Page suggested the Green Goblin kill a reporter to gain back some of the menace lost after "A Freak Like Me Needs Company," but they couldn't get the actor's body offstage without making it looks look sexual, so it was cut.
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** During the 2.0 run, Patrick Page suggested the Green Goblin kill a reporter to gain back some of the menace lost after "A Freak Like Me Needs Company," but they couldn't get the actor's body offstage without making it looks sexual, so it was cut.
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* OnSetInjury: The show was such a TroubledProduction that the play's page in Wiki/TheOtherWiki has a subsection dedicated exclusively to cast injuries:
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* AuthorsSavingThrow: A complete overhaul of the play was made after weeks of being torn to shreds by critics, which excised the Geek Chorus, placed more focus on the supporting cast, and made the Green Goblin the main villain instead of Arachne. While it received far better reviews than the original version, it did ''not'' save the play from being a commercial and critical failure.
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** Natalie Mendoza had a concussion on November 28, 2010. Against medical advice, she went back a couple of days later, even though her role of Arachne entailed flying sequences. She felt sick and her understudy had to take over her part for about two weeks. Mendoza ended up withdrawing from the show on December 30, 2010.
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** Natalie Mendoza had a concussion was struck in the head by equipment on November 28, 2010.2010 which left her with a concussion. Against medical advice, she went back a couple of days later, even though her role of Arachne entailed flying sequences. She felt sick and her understudy had to take over her part for about two weeks. Mendoza ended up withdrawing from the show on December 30, 2010.
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** The 1.0 plot didn't have Arachne function as Peter's SpiritAdvisor, but had the ''actual'' Arachne from the Greek legend as the BigBad rather than Green Goblin, with Gobby getting killed off at the end of the first act. Arachne was also the leading lady. She had a song about trying on shoes and a very blatantly FoeYay-laden scene where she sneaks into Peter's room and sings ''Turn Off the Dark.'' She also had two master plans, either of which she would have been perfectly fine with: either have Peter fall in love with her, or have him kill her. Either way, she's freed from her curse.
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** The 1.0 plot didn't have Arachne function as Peter's SpiritAdvisor, but had the ''actual'' Arachne from the Greek legend as the BigBad rather than Green Goblin, with Gobby getting killed off at the end of the first act. Arachne was also the leading lady. She had a song about trying on shoes and a very blatantly FoeYay-laden FoeYayShipping-laden scene where she sneaks into Peter's room and sings ''Turn Off the Dark.'' She also had two master plans, either of which she would have been perfectly fine with: either have Peter fall in love with her, or have him kill her. Either way, she's freed from her curse.
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* OnSetInjury: The show was such a TroubledProduction that the play's page in Wiki.TheOtherWiki has a subsection dedicated exclusively to cast injuries:
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* ColbertBump: Radio/GlennBeck promoted the musical on his radio show, giving it some extra attention. And then there was the "Spider-Monster" skit on ''Series/SesameStreet'' which mocked its TroubledProduction.
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* OnSeInjury: ''Theatre/SpiderManTurnOffTheDark'' was such a TroubledProduction that the play's page in Wiki.TheOtherWiki has a subsection dedicated exclusively to cast injuries:
** Natalie Mendoza had a concussion on November 28, 2010. Against medical advice, she went back a couple of days later, even though her role of Arachne entailed flying sequences. She felt sick and her understudy had to take over her part for about two weeks. Mendoza ended up withdrawing from the show on December 30, 2010.
** Stunt performer Christopher Tierney fell 21 feet (6.4 m) off a piece of scenery, through the stage and into the orchestra pit. His harness was not connected to the safety cord.
** Actor and stunt performer Daniel Curry was pinned under a piece of equipment, injuring his leg.
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** Natalie Mendoza had a concussion on November 28, 2010. Against medical advice, she went back a couple of days later, even though her role of Arachne entailed flying sequences. She felt sick and her understudy had to take over her part for about two weeks. Mendoza ended up withdrawing from the show on December 30, 2010.
** Stunt performer Christopher Tierney fell 21 feet (6.4 m) off a piece of scenery, through the stage and into the orchestra pit. His harness was not connected to the safety cord.
** Actor and stunt performer Daniel Curry was pinned under a piece of equipment, injuring his leg.
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** In January 2012, the producers suggested that the show might periodically add new scenes and songs to encourage repeat customers. The cautionary tale continued to unfold: Taymor filed suit against the producers and Bono and The Edge, claiming that not only that she was unjustly fired but also that they used her rewrites afterward, without giving her credit.
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** In January 2012, the producers suggested that the show might periodically add new scenes and songs to encourage repeat customers.customers (which ultimately never happened). The cautionary tale continued to unfold: Taymor filed suit against the producers and Bono and The Edge, claiming that not only that she was unjustly fired but also that they used her rewrites afterward, without giving her credit.
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* OrphanedReference: In 1.0, "If the World Should End" was sung by MJ to Peter during a blackout while the Sinister Six wrought havoc to the city, hence the title. In 2.0, there is no blackout, and the song takes place ''before'' the Six's attack, in a regular date between MJ and Peter, removing the context and making it a bit more of a broadly generic love song.
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** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', constant mockery from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
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** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', constant mockery from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it. It even got mocked during the [=65th=] Tony Awards to enthusiastic applause from the audience.
---> '''Creator/NeilPatrickHarris:''' We've got swarms of Mormons, showgirls, sailors, dancing boys and nuns,[=/=]Plus a spider facing death-defying budget overruns!
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** Trouble started very early. When Bono and the Edge were preparing to sign their contracts, they realized no one had brought a pen. So, the Edge stepped out to grab one and came back to find that producer Tony Adams had suffered a massive stroke. Adams was dead by the time he reached the hospital. This put producing responsibilities on the shoulders of David Garfinkle, a lawyer and and novice producer.
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** Trouble started very early. When Bono and the Edge were preparing to sign their contracts, they realized no one had brought a pen. So, the Edge stepped out to grab one and came back to find that producer Tony Adams had suffered a massive stroke. Adams was dead by the time he reached the hospital. This put producing responsibilities on the shoulders of David Garfinkle, a lawyer and and novice producer.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: The show ended up being a massive financial loss (estimated at around $60 million). The sheer expense of the whole endeavor meant that they needed to sell out every seat for years to have a hope of breaking even.
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* CreatorKiller: Director Julie Taymor, once one of the hottest directors on Broadway, was fired from the production, and has done little since.
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** Director Julie Taymor, once one of the hottest directors on Broadway, was fired from the production, and has done littlesince.since.
** David Garfinkle's producing career ended with this show.[[note]]He was supposed to be learning the ins and outs of producing under the tutelage of Tony Adams, the original lead producer. Then Adams died of a sudden stroke and Garfinkle ended up having to figure things out for himself, to disastrous results.[[/note]]
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** Director Julie Taymor, once one of the hottest directors on Broadway, was fired from the production, and has done little
** David Garfinkle's producing career ended with this show.[[note]]He was supposed to be learning the ins and outs of producing under the tutelage of Tony Adams, the original lead producer. Then Adams died of a sudden stroke and Garfinkle ended up having to figure things out for himself, to disastrous results.[[/note]]
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** Garfinkle, acknowledging his lack of experience, gave director Julie Taymor a great deal of creative freedom. This was a good idea on the face of things, as she previously delivered hits like ''The Lion King''. However, she'd become enamored with Arachne and the idea of making ''Turn Off the Dark'' somewhat akin to a Greek play, complete with chorus, which didn't really work. She also made changes to Spider-Man's back story that didn't sit well with comic fans.
** Garfinkle, acknowledging his lack of experience, gave director Julie Taymor a great deal of creative freedom. This was a good idea on the face of things, as she previously delivered hits like ''The Lion King''. However, she'd become enamored with Arachne and the idea of making ''Turn Off the Dark'' somewhat akin to a Greek play, complete with chorus, which didn't really work. She also made changes to Spider-Man's back story that didn't sit well with comic fans.
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** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
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** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', constant mockery from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
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** The original plot didn't have Arachne function as Peter's SpiritAdvisor, but had the ''actual'' Arachne from the Greek legend as the BigBad rather than Green Goblin, with Gobby getting killed off at the end of the first act. Arachne was also the leading lady. She had a song about trying on shoes and a very blatantly FoeYay-laden scene where she sneaks into Peter's room and sings ''Turn Off the Dark.'' She also had two master plans, either of which she would have been perfectly fine with: either have Peter fall in love with her, or have him kill her. Either way, she's freed from her curse.
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** The original first treatment of the story, entitled ''Spider-Man: Caught'', was mostly the same as the 1.0 version until its climax, where Arachne attacked Spider-Man, who bit Mary Jane and gave ''her'' spider-powers, enabling her to combat Arachne. This treatment had no ending.
** The 1.0 plot didn't have Arachne function as Peter's SpiritAdvisor, but had the ''actual'' Arachne from the Greek legend as the BigBad rather than Green Goblin, with Gobby getting killed off at the end of the first act. Arachne was also the leading lady. She had a song about trying on shoes and a very blatantly FoeYay-laden scene where she sneaks into Peter's room and sings ''Turn Off the Dark.'' She also had two master plans, either of which she would have been perfectly fine with: either have Peter fall in love with her, or have him kill her. Either way, she's freed from her curse.
** The 1.0 plot didn't have Arachne function as Peter's SpiritAdvisor, but had the ''actual'' Arachne from the Greek legend as the BigBad rather than Green Goblin, with Gobby getting killed off at the end of the first act. Arachne was also the leading lady. She had a song about trying on shoes and a very blatantly FoeYay-laden scene where she sneaks into Peter's room and sings ''Turn Off the Dark.'' She also had two master plans, either of which she would have been perfectly fine with: either have Peter fall in love with her, or have him kill her. Either way, she's freed from her curse.
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* CutSong: Many songs from 1.0 were altered or cut, such as the opening number "Splash Page". Arachne's songs got hit hardest; she lost "Deeply Furious," "Think Again," "Love Me or Kill Me." Some lyrics from "Deeply Furious" were reused in "A Freak Like Me Needs Company."
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* CutSong: Many songs from 1.0 were altered or cut, such as the opening number "Splash Page". Arachne's songs got hit hardest; she lost "Deeply Furious," "Think Again," and "Love Me or Kill Me." Some lyrics from "Deeply Furious" were reused in "A Freak Like Me Needs Company."
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* RecycledScript: The first version had quite a bit of dialogue from the first movie in it. The second got rid of most of it, but scenes like Spider-Man saving a baby from a fire still seem directly lifted.
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** The first version had quite a bit of dialogue from the first movie in it. The second got rid of most of it, but scenes like Spider-Man saving a baby from a fire still seem directly lifted.
** The first version had quite a bit of dialogue from the first movie in it. The second got rid of most of it, but scenes like Spider-Man saving a baby from a fire still seem directly lifted.
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** Oddly enough, the Green Goblin is given the backstory of Dr. Octopus from the second film, with Harry Osborn not existing at all.
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* HardToAdaptWork: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bxB9vTToQ As discussed in Wait In The Wing's retrospective]], a major culprit for the show's TroubledProduction was the cost and difficulty of translating the franchise's acrobatic feats into a medium that's restricted to practical effects: while the comics and cartoons are incentivized by TheLawOfConservationOfDetail to depict these stunts, and the films can work around them with CGI and carefully-edited shots, the production was forced to execute them to their fullest extent with complicated wiring mechanisms (and the ensuing red tape). Even after the extensive, expensive construction of this wiring system, there were so many moving parts that it was highly susceptible to failure, as seen with the numerous issues during previews.
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* HardToAdaptWork: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6bxB9vTToQ As discussed in Wait In The Wing's retrospective]], a major culprit for the show's TroubledProduction was the cost and difficulty of translating the franchise's acrobatic feats into a medium that's restricted to practical effects: while the comics and cartoons are incentivized by TheLawOfConservationOfDetail to depict these stunts, and the films can work around them with CGI and carefully-edited shots, the production was forced to execute them to their fullest extent with complicated wiring mechanisms (and the ensuing red tape). Even after the extensive, expensive construction of this wiring system, there were so many moving parts that it was highly susceptible to failure, as seen with the numerous issues during previews.
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* InspirationForTheWork: According to Glen Berger's book ''Song of Spider-Man'', Julie Taymor became committed to the project after seeing the first page of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''s first issue, where Norman Osborn relates the myth of Arachne to his coworker. This led to Arachne's large presence in the first version of the show.
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* InspirationForTheWork: According to Glen Berger's book ''Song of Spider-Man'', Julie Taymor became committed to the project after seeing the first page of ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan''s ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan'''s first issue, where Norman Osborn relates the myth of Arachne to his coworker. This led to Arachne's large presence in the first version of the show.
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* TroubledProduction: Quite possibly the most infamous, noteworthy and widely mocked example of one in Broadway history. It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
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* TroubledProduction: Quite possibly the most infamous, noteworthy and widely mocked example of one in Broadway history. [[https://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2012/03/saga-of-spider-man-turn-off-dark.html This article]] goes into further detail.
** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
** It had a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark#History hard time just getting to its preview period]] on Broadway... whereupon things went FromBadToWorse due to seemingly endless injuries to its performers [[note]]To the point that Creator/StephenColbert referred to it on ''Series/TheColbertReport'' as "Spider-Man: Notify Next of Kin"[[/note]], inspiring parodies on ''Series/{{Conan}}'', snarky coverage by Website/TheOnion Website/AVClub, endless snark in general from ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', and a RippedFromTheHeadlines episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderCriminalIntent'' -- even ''Series/SesameStreet'' got in on making fun of it.
