Actor Injured in Fall During ‘Spider-Man’ Performance

Source: NY Times

An actor performing in the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” was injured during a performance Monday night, according to the police and several witnesses.

Theatergoers who attended Monday’s performance of “Spider-Man,” a $65 million musical featuring complicated aerial stunts, said they saw a performer playing the title hero fall about 8 to 10 feet into a pit during the closing minutes of the show, and that some equipment fell into the audience when this occurred. A video of the performance showed a line holding the performer apparently snap.

A police spokesman confirmed that a male actor was injured at about 10:42 p.m. and taken to Bellevue Hospital Center. No other information was immediately released.

A spokesman for the musical, e-mailing a few hours after the incident, did not identify the injured actor, but said that it was not Reeve Carney, the lead actor who plays Spider-Man and his alter ego, Peter Parker. Other actors play Spider-Man throughout the show during various stunts and action sequences.

Read more: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/20/performer-is-injured-during-spider-man-performance/?hp

There have been delays and re-writes too.

AEA needs to shut down Spiderman until further notice when ALL problems are fixed. Enough is enough!

Four actors injured so far -- are they waiting for someone to be killed?

And should be.

We were promised in the late 80s/early 90s!!!

TlalocW

shut it down.

This show, too many injuries. I expect musicals to be dangerous, but safety is job one, and if you are not doing that job, then you do not have a viable show.

..she said that good art involves risk, including physical risk. Easy for her to say.

It might approach stupidly entertaining crapfeast.

Let's see how much good art is worth in a courtroom.

J