Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark finally closed on Broadway last weekend, after a run that included cast injuries, a change of director, an inflated budget and historic losses.
Along the way, the show garnered a reputation as "Broadway's most disaster-prone production" (in the words of Variety's Ramin Setoodeh,) as well as "the most expensive musical ever made."
From the start, the show was plagued with technical glitches.
A total of six cast members were injured on the set, resulting in lawsuits. And the special effects-laden production cost a total of $75 million, twice as much as any other Broadway musical.
As Classicalite reported in November, the costs of running the production were enormous, between $1 million and $1.3 million per week.
Moreover, the weekly costs sometimes exceeded ticket revenue.
Although the troubled production failed to win over the critics--and box office receipts ultimately weren't strong enough to offset production costs--the musical still had a small but loyal following among some young-at-heart fans.
A few of them even told Setoodeh they had seen the show more than 100 times.
He spoke with one woman, Gale Vitale, 29, who estimated that she had been to the theater 130 to 140 times over the course of the show's run.
But even the musical's most diehard fans still weren't enough to keep the show going.
But there may be a second act for this Spider-Man.
One of the show's producers, Jeremiah Harris, said that they are still considering taking the show to Las Vegas in 2015. And the producers are still considering a tour of Germany as well, holding out the slim hope that some of the money lost on the production may be recouped.
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