Spider-Man left hanging on Broadway

Despite $65m budget and music by Bono, musical's preview hit by problems including a superhero dangling above the audienceHow do you convert the whizz-bang acrobatics of Spider-Man – easy to draw in a Marvel comic and almost as easy to put on the big screen via digital technology – into a live Broadway show? With difficulty, judging by last night's preview show.Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark lived up to its reputation as one of the greatest gambles in musical history when it gave its first pu...

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