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Last month the embattled Broadway trainwreck known as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark went into previews again after the show was shut down for a few weeks to retool the production. Last night, the new version of Turn Off the Dark officially opened on Broadway … 7 months after it went into previews in its first accident-ridden incarnation. Last night’s opening was a star-studded affair but the reviews remain the same … the show still isn’t all that good. Nonetheless, Turn Off the Dark threw itself a bit ol’ party to celebrate it’s opening. Check out some photos below.

In mid April, the Julie Taymor version of the Broadway musical disaster Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark unofficially closed so that the show could be retooled with a new story in the hopes of saving the show from total failure. After all of the injuries and technical glitches that plagued the show from the start last November, the hope is that a new version of the show might keep players from getting injured AND entertain audiences. Last night, the new version of Turn Off the Dark opened to previews … and altho there still were some technical problems, the show managed NOT to injure anyone so … it sounds like it’s off to a positive start.

Early last month we learned that famed director Julie Taymor had been fired from her show Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark due to numerous cast injuries and across-the-board terrible reviews. Just a couple weeks after that news broke, lead actress T.V. Carpio was injured so severely during a performance that she had to leave the show, adding to the already long list of actors injured by the show. Today we learn that Taymor‘s vision of the show, the one that cost $70 million to produce, will end entirely this weekend. After the final shows play this weekend, Turn Off the Dark will close for 3 weeks so that the entire show can be overhauled. Without question, the end of Taymor‘s vision of the Spider-Man mythos will be the greatest failure of her career.

Two weeks ago we learned that Broadway director Julie Taymor had been fired from the troubled production Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and today we learn MORE bad news for the trainwreck of a show. T.V. Carpio, the lead villain in the show, was injured on set last week and has been forced out of the show due to her injuries. As you may know, Carpio replaced actress Natalie Mendoza after she was injured by the show last year. T.V. Carpio is now the 5th Spider-Man actor to be physically injured on the set of this $70 million dollar debacle.

Yesterday we learned from a New York Times report that director Julie Taymor was in danger of losing her job at the helm of the extremely troubled $65 million dollar Broadway mess musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark and today we learn from NY1 (a local NYC 24-hour news outlet) that Taymor has already been ousted from the show. Citing sources, NY1 reports that Julie has already left the show … she’s gone. Additionally, there are new reports that the show, due to open next week, will have it’s opening night pushed back to June! Read below for all the reported deets.

The embattled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is considering a complete overhaul of the show … an overhaul that might result in bringing in an entirely new creative team … and might force the exit of director Julie Taymor. I’m not sure if Taymor‘s termination from the show will be enough to save the behemoth of a musical spectacle but it would surely be a huge embarrassment for the usually esteemed director.

Yesterday was a pretty fun but bizzy day. I managed to do a bit of shopping on 5th Ave. yesterday and picked up a few things at Diesel (my fave store) before David and I met up with his friends Jeremy, Shane and Isaac for pre-Spider-Man drinks. Then we saw Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark (read my review HERE). Then we met up with our friends Paul, Yale, Marissa and Isaac (again) for post-Spider-Man drinks. I’m not saying that Turn Off the Dark drove us to drink but … yeah, there was a lot of drinking ;)

So last night, after many months of blogging about the show as it was being made and thru all of the calamities and set-backs that have occurred since the show opened in previews last November, I finally got the chance to see Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark for myself. Based on all of the terrible reviews of the show, I must admit that my expectations were pretty low going in … but as a huge Spider-Man fan, I couldn’t help but be excited to see the show with my own eyes.

There is a tradition on Broadway where major news outlets choose not to officially review shows and plays until they officially open for business. But, because producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark pushed back their opening night from December, to January, to February to MARCH, news outlets like The New York Times and The LA Times have broken with tradition and published their reviews. Tired of waiting, these news outlets decided to finally chime in and offer their opinions of the show … and unfortch for Turn Off the Dark, neither newspaper had any good things to say about it.

You’re not gonna believe this, or mebbe you will, but producers for the embattled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark have announced that the show’s official opening night has been pushed back AGAIN another month! In mid-December we learned that the show’s delayed January opening (pushed back from December) would be pushed back to February … today, we learn that the opening has been pushed back again to March (apparently because the show needs to be tweaked and a new ending has to be tested). The New York Daily News published a spirited article about this latest delay and it is DEFFO worth reading.