Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3)
6/3/202639 min
Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3)
In this episode the Spiderman Broadway show is hit by casting issues, money issues, and theatre issues. Bascially, anything that can go wrong does. Will the show ever open? And at what cost?
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First 90 secondsJosh Widdicombe· Host0:00
[tape rolling] Hello and welcome. I am Josh Widdicombe. For today, I'm the curator of a place of incredible artifacts and exhibitions, a place that stores the greatest thing on earth. This is my Archive of Pop Culture.
Speaker 2· Soundbite0:16
[rock music] Someone else has woken up inside of me. Something has just turned on the light in me. I feel a force flow through every artery now. I can't get down. I woke up on the roof again. Round and round, spinning on the spot again. I can't explain the who, the what, the why, or the when now. And I feel it in my veins. It's a feeling I can't tame. Can anyone please explain? Why, why, why? Why I'm bouncing off the walls. Bouncing off the walls. Bouncing off the walls. Bouncing off the walls.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:14
I think it'd be good to start this episode before we go into the absolute height of the carnage of Spider-Man: The Musical by putting it in perspective. Spider-Man the film has been a great success, right? So why not? 'Cause