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The troubled Broadway musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" was struck by its fourth accident in a month when a performer doing an aerial stunt fell about 30 feet, fire officials said.
The producers of the troubled "Spider-Man" musical on Broadway say they have enacted new safety measures ordered by the government and will resume production on Wednesday night.
The producers of the troubled "Spider-Man" musical on Broadway said they have enacted new safety measures ordered by the government and will resume performances on Wednesday night.
The producers of the troubled "Spider-Man" musical on Broadway said they have enacted new safety measures ordered by the government and will resume performances on Wednesday night.
Broadway might need a superhero to save the new Spider-Man musical.
Broadway might need a superhero to save the new Spider-Man musical. "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," the most expensive production in Broadway history, suffered its fourth accident in a month when a stuntman playing the web-slinger fell about 30 feet into a stage pit during a preview Monday night. The safety tether that clips to his back failed to prevent the spill.
But he said it was unlikely that the rope would have snapped: It's a 10,000-pound line that would be very difficult to break.
Scott Fisher, president of Fisher Technical Services Inc., in Las Vegas, which builds the equipment that does the automated and powered aerial stunts for the show, said the rope involved in the accident was clipped to the stage at one end and clipped to the performer's back at the other end.
