Swinging from Queens to Manhattan, everyone’s favorite web-crawler was the next hero to come to Broadway.

45 years after Superman fell victim to Kryptonite on Broadway, creators thought it was time for another go.

With the rights to being available since 2005, producer Glen Berger joined director Julie Taymor and Bono and the Edge to bring Broadway’s newest hero to life.

Taymor added new characters including the Greek goddess Arachne (who was never found in any Spider-Man stories).

In her story, Arachne is the reason Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man.

This took away from the true meaning behind Parker’s character that fans could relate to.

In every version of the show, they left out some key moments to Parker’s development into Spider-Man that gives him his moral compass towards good.

From “Wait in the Wings” on YouTube, the show had an initial budget of $52 million dollars.

That wasn’t close to what the whole production would end up costing in the end.

“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” made it’s FIRST debut on November 28, 2010 to some of the biggest press coverage from an opening night.

This was known as “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” version 1.0.

“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” 1.0:

The first preview set up for what was to happen for the rest of the run.

The show started late, sets were missing and there were wire malfunctions.

Halfway through Act One, the stage manager had to hold the show in efforts to catch a constant swinging Spider-Man.

The show held a 40 minute intermission and stopped once again during the final 10 minutes of the show.

Critics were upset that they didn’t receive any invitations to the show, so they purchased their own tickets and saw chaos.

The press became very harsh toward the show, and reports became even worse when cast injuries started to occur.

One of the worst injuries to occur was that of Spider-Man stunt double-Chris Tierney.

He was running up the Brooklyn Bridge (as every night) and made the jump to save MJ.

According to ABC.com, this night however, as he made the jump, he free-fell 20-30 feet off the stage.

Tierney broke multiple vertebrae and ribs, along with fractures in his elbow, scapula and skull.

After the accident, the two performances following were canceled and cost the show $400,000 in ticket sales.

Following, the show was put on halt from December of 2010 to January of 2011 due to creative differences behind the scenes.

Once again from January to February 2011 for work on new numbers and rewrites to the script.

Then again from February to March 2011.

While all these pauses, previews were still being performed.

The final pause came from April 19 to May 11, 2011. At this point, the show had performed 140 previews for audiences.

With this, the show finally closed because they all agreed that the book for the show didn’t do the characters justice.

They worked tirelessly to bring a new version of the story to the stage.

“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” 2.0:

After six delays, five injuries and 182 preview performances, the show officially opened on June 14, 2011. This was over one year and four months since the show performed its first preview.

Critics thought the new show made more sense, but they still didn’t have strong feelings towards it.

With the negative reviews coming from the critics, they didn’t believe that the show would last more than a few months on Broadway.

The show proved otherwise.

“Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” performed to sold out audiences consistently night after night.

The show ended up running for 1,066 performances when it came to closing night on January 4, 2014.

According to “Wait in the Wings” on YouTube, the show looked like it would’ve been considered a hit, but in the end, it cost investors over $60 million dollars.

It is still known to this day as one of the biggest flops on Broadway due to all the financial problems and failures it faced throughout its run.

In the end, the show had a $79 million price tag attached to it. It made it the most expensive show to be ever put on Broadway.

After the closing, they announced that the show would be reworked again and brought to a big arena stage in Las Vegas.

All plans of the show were cancelled.

Just like Superman, this show was just more proof that our favorite heroes should stick to fighting bad guys on the big screen rather than a live audience.

Everyone’s Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man is one that doesn’t need to sing and swing to U2 songs to show the world how cool he is!