On Tuesday we learned the grim news that production on the ill-conceived Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Broadway musical was put on indefinite hold due to the expensive production costs that were getting out of hand. At the time, while the report suggested the show was in trubs there was no hint that it was near fatal. Today we learn from the New York Post that pretty much all hope for the production to make it to the stage is lost. The production remains “on hold” but the actors who have signed on for the show have been let out of their contracts … sounds like it’s pretty much dunzo to me:

I think it’s pretty safe to whip out the plastic flatware and give a hearty Peace the Spork Out to the Spider-Man Musical. It was a terrible idea from the start, yes, but the timing couldn’t have been worse. If they had come up with the idea about 5 years ago, when pretty much every single movie was being recycled into a Broadway show, it prolly could’ve been a marginal success. While I am still very intrigued by the notion of Julie Tamor (the woman who helmed the amazing Broadway musical based on Disney‘s The Lion King) bringing Spider-Man to the musical theater stage, nothing else about the production sounded viable. If you are one of the unfortunate folks who already shelled out for tickets to this fiasco, I’d see about getting your money back … tout suite! I guess the next time we get to see the web-slinger in action will be on the big screen.

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