Spiderman.. spiderman.. falls off stages like no-one can..

Audience screams as Spider-Man musical stunt goes wrong

Picture a $65 million dollar Broadway musical based on the movie, based on the comic strip.. Spiderman leaps off the balcony to rescue the girl, but instead, plummets 30 feed down to the orchestra pit.  The audience were reported to be “surprised”.  Not as much as the orchestra I’m guessing.  Whoops.  That’s not part of the script.

Now for $65 million dollars, wouldn’t you think that you could hire actors who could improvise.  “Gosh – Spiderman has disappeared – where could he have gone in our time of need?  Never fear, Super-bucket-on-my-head Man will take on the criminal with this fire extinguisher I found back stage!”

This is the fourth such injury – and technically, the musical is still in preview mode – where they get to iron out all the bugs (no pun intended).   Fourth injury? WTF?  Sounds very suspicious to me.  I say you turn this into a ‘Murder she wrote’ musical.   Jessica Lansbury belting out a few songs written by U2 – like ‘Still haven’t found who we’re looking for’ for starters.    Dam.  This thing is practically writing itself.

Cause of the accident?  Human error.  Not robot error.  Not trick pony error.  Human error.  Bet someone sneezed at the wrong time.. or was updating their twitter account…  “Boring – 16 show in a row and all I get to do is hold this …. Whoops…”.

Also.. the man isn’t spider man.  See.. not as easy as it looks huh?  Perhaps they should of got one of those kids that does parkour..   (No.. not parketry.. that’s different).  Where they jump from building to building..  that would have definitely come in handy.  Well.. the show much go on.  The part of spider man will now be played by a real trained spider, and audience members will be given binoculars.  It’s going to blow out the budget a bit.  But, given how slow spiders move, the show will now take about 12 days, so drink sales will help cover the costs.  Break a leg!