Broadway Beat

Drew Grant finds some good words for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Ousting Julie Taymor and postponing again for rewrites don't seem to have driven folks away from the box office. Last week, the show was at 96.9% capacity. Then again, maybe most of those tickets were purchased before the shake-up.

We are hearing naught but raves for the new musical from the folks who brought us South Park. It's called The Book of Mormon and everyone I know who's seen it says it will run forever and deserves to.