Spider-Man to play final performance on 04 Jan 2014

The Broadway premiere of Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark has posted closing notices and will play its final performance at the Foxwoods Theatre pn 04 Jan 2014, before tranferring to LAs Vegas. When the show closes on Broadway it will have played 182 preview performances and 1086 regular performances.

Producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris commented,

Our years on Broadway have afforded us the opportunity to build an internationally recognized brand, and Las Vegas, with its year-round stream of tourists seeking the world's best entertainment, is the natural home for this next incarnation. To prepare for the Las Vegas production, we have tasked the creative team to push the boundaries even further, taking the same story and making it sleeker, bolder, and more spectacular than ever.

the musical opened on Broadway to mixed reviews: Does not live up to all the hype (Newyorktheatreguide); It's just a bore (NY Times); A fun family show (Back Stage); A loud, garish musical-with-flying (Bloomberg).

Drawing from more than 40 years of Marvel comic books for inspiration, Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark follows the story of teenager Peter Parker, whose unremarkable life is turned upside-down—literally — when he's bitten by a genetically altered spider and wakes up the next morning clinging to his bedroom ceiling. This bullied science-geek—suddenly endowed with astonishing powers — soon learns, however, that with great power comes great responsibility as villains test not only his physical strength but also his strength of character.

Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark features music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy Award-winners Bono and The Edge of U2, and a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger ('Underneath The Lintel').

Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark currently stars Justin Matthew Sargent as 'Peter Parker/Spider-Man,' Rebecca Faulkenberry as 'Mary Jane Watson' and Robert Cuccioli as 'Norman Osborn/The Green Goblin.

The principal cast also currently features Christina DeCicco (Arachne), Michael Mulheren (J. Jonah Jameson), Ken Marks (Uncle Ben), Isabel Keating (Aunt May), Timothy Warmen (MJ's Father), Emily Shoolin (Emily Osborn), Dwayne Clark (Boyle/Busker), Jake Odmark (Flash), Aaron LaVigne (Kong).

The creative team includes Daniel Ezralow (Choreography), George Tsypin (Scenic Design), Academy Award-winner Eiko Ishioka (Costume Design), Tony Award-winner Donald Holder (Lighting Design), Jonathan Deans (Sound Design), Kyle Cooper (Projection Design) and Julie Taymor (Mask Design).

Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark is being produced on Broadway by Michael Cohl, Jeremiah J. Harris, Land Line Productions, Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Billy and Fernando Rovzar Diez Barroso, Jeffrey B. Hecktman, Omneity Entertainment/Richard G. Weinberg, Nederlander Organization/James L. Nederlander, Terry Allen Kramer, S2BN Entertainment, Jam Theatricals, the Mayerson/Gould/Hauser/Tysoe Group, and Patricia Lambrecht, by association with Marvel Entertainment.

Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark previewed for an unprecedented seven months as the original creative team struggled to finalise the production.

Eventually, the musical's director and co-book writer, Julie Taymor, give up controll of day-to-day duties in Mar 2011, and Philip William McKinley was appointed as creative consultant/director. With the aid of Playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and choreographer Chase Brock, who were also added to the creative team at this time, new staging, book rewrites and additional choreography was introduced to the show. The musical then went into hiatus for three weeks, from 19 Apr - 12 May 2011, while the new version went through final rehearsals in preparation for opening night on 14 Jun 2011.

The press release announcing the re-worked production read, "The revamping of Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark represents an unprecedented and historic moment on Broadway. The new version takes the best aspects of the original, adds great new songs by Bono and The Edge, tells the story from a different angle, and will offer an even more thrilling audience experience."