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Revised
version
of
'Spider-Man'
musical
returns
to
BroadwaY
BY
FMNK
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Newsdcy
"spider-Man:
Turn
Off
the
Dark"
redux
came through
with
flying colors
-
red
and
blue
-
in an early
look
at
the
revamped
Broadway
musical's
first
preview
performance
at
the
Foxwoods
Theatre
in
Times
Square
last night.
The
show
opens
officially
June
14.
The
two
"spider-Man"
aeri
al
sequences
flew
flawlessly
before
intermission,
with
the
stunt
performers avoiding
the
technical
woes
that troubled
the much-maligned
original
version
that
previewed from
Nov.
28 through
mid-April.
Gone
is the
much-maligned
"Geek Chorus"
of
four
teens
who
ruminated
on
the
super-
hero. Gone
is
the overarching
reliance
on
the spider-goddess
Arachne,
whose
incomprehen-
sible
machinations
bewildered
audiences.
And
gone
is the
ac-
cidental
death
of
Peter Park-
er's Uncle
Ben,
who
in the
classic
comic-book
retelling
died
as
the
inadvertent
result
of
Peter's selfishness
and
irre-
sponsibility,
creating
the guilt
that
motivates
his
superltero-
dom
-
although
his
offstage
death
by
a
burglar still
isnt
Pe-
ter's
fault in
any way.
"I'm
happy to
hear
that
theY
got
rid of the
Geek
Chorus,"
said
Dan Slott,'the
writer
of
Marvel
Comics'
flagship
series,
"The
Amazing Spider-Man,"
who
was
outside
the
theater be-
fore curtain
time.
"It
had
kind
of
felt like
a
slarr\
making
fun
of
the comic-reading
audience."
Retaining
the
original's
sPec-
tacular
set designs
and
acrobat-
ic
aerial
sequences,
and offer-
ing
a tightened
and
more cohe-
sive
plot,
a sharper
focus on
Spi-
der-Man's
archnemesis
the
Green
Goblin,
and five
new
songs
that
replace
three
others,
the
ambitious
show,
by
far
Broadway's
most
exPensive
production
ever,
earned
re-
spectful
though
not
thunderous
applause,
and
a tair number
of
laughs
in
appropriate
places.
Writer
Roberto
Aguirre-Sa-
casa,
director
Philip
William
McKinley
and creative
consult-
ant
Paul
Bogaev were
brought
in to
revamp
the show
at the
producers' request.
In
earlY
March, original
director
fulie
Taymor
agreed
to step
aside.
Aside
from the
near-unani-
mous brickbats
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suffered when
critics
reviewed
the
preview of Feb.
7
-
the
fourth
announced
and
delayed
opening
night
-
enough
per-
formers
suffered
injuries
that
the
show became
a
punch
line.
Stunt
Spider-Man
ChristoPher
Tierney
was
hospitalized
after
falling
at
least
20 feet,
and
Na-
talie
Mendoza,
the
fust
to
PlaY
the
spider-goddess
Arachne,
suffered
a
concussion
during
the
frst
preview.
Her
replace-
ment,
T.V. Carpio,
was
later
in-
jured
and
had to
sit out
the
show
for two
weeks.