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Since its preview premiere, Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark has generated a lot of talk. Despite that, it has been on Broadway for over a year and it´s managed to satisfy the expectations of its director Julie Taymor, who has been given awards for the music of the show, which was by the leader of U2, Bono, and The Edge.
The show is made up by 41 actors to which they add 18 orchestra members and acrobats. The main actors are Natalie Mendoza, who plays a seductive and evil spider, and Reeve Carney, who plays the seductive hero of the story, Spider-Man.
To produce the acrobats, where the actors are launched in the air at 37mph, they hired a specialist of the Cirque du Soleil, who was in charge of designing the way to do it and training the artists so that no accidents occurred in these risky maneuvers. However, at one time, the show was stopped for a moment because the acrobatics went wrong and the actors were left hanging from the cables, facing a surprised crowd that didn´t know if it was part of the show or an accident.
Initially, and due to these inconveniences, the show that cost $65m was labelled an “anthological failure” by the New York Post, although the New York Times called it a “good show”, without mentioning the cuts due to the technical aspects of the acrobatics. Regarding the music and the script, they´ve also had mixed reviews, with more positive ones since it manages to capture the attention of the spectators majestically.
They all agree on the fact that it´s one of the most highly elaborated Broadway shows, hence its multi-million investments, and that´s perhaps why there were these small interruptions at the beginning. However, it´s a well pieced-together show, where dance and the use of theatre space make it an avant-garde show in American musical theatre.
Spider-Man: Turn of the Dark is a theatrical approximation to the story in the comic books that then went onto the movies. It all begins when the teenager Peter Parker is bitten by a spider and develops special attributes thanks to a genetic mutation brought by the animal´s poison, among them superhuman strength and the capacity of creating spiderwebs with his hands. Like in all comic book stories, there´s a villain. In this case, it´s Norman Osborn, an evil scientist who wants to take over the world, which always focuses on New York. To defeat him, Spider-Man turns to Aracne, a mythical spider goddess, so that she can give him the inspiration he needs.
The shows are every day of the week excepting Monday. Tickets cost $136 but can be bought at reduced prices on this website: http://www.newyork60.com/language/es-es/broadway-shows. Despite the fact that the show is based on a children´s comic book, it´s not recommended for children.
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