Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is undergoing major revisions under a new director and a new book writer. The current version will play for another month or so and I'm curious to see if attendance will go up (because people want to see this much-talked-about version while they can) or down (because this version has been declared seriously broken). The show will close on April 17 so the changes can he rehearsed and then it will resume previews on May 12 and actually open on June 14. Obviously, those last two dates are subject to change.
I hope they pull it off. I know there are folks out there who think expensive spectaculars are choking Broadway, making it impossible to do a "little" show. I have no doubt theater would be better off if there wasn't so much money riding on every effort but I think Spider-Man is already an example of why huge budgets need to be avoided. It will forever remind producers that a $10 million budget can easily turn into a $20 million one and a $30 million one and eventually, $65 million. (Closing for a month will drive the total $$$ gamble up further.) Even if it's eventually profitable — and it has a long way to go before that will seem possible — few will want to take that risk.