Spider-Man Injury Update: Safety Inspectors Plan to Visit Production
If Broadway had an NFL-like injury report, Julie Taymor's production of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark would be listed as "questionable." In the wake of Monday night's latest injury -- when a stunt performer fell nearly ten feet into a pit beneath the stage -- safety inspectors with the New York State Department of Labor will pay a visit to the production. "We'll be talking to the production team, checking the harnesses, cables, and other equipment, and trying to determine what happened, and we'll have more information after that," said a department spokesman to the Times. Developing... [NYT/ArtsBeat]
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I think Julie Taymor is gonna have to let this one go. If you can't safely replicate the stunts night after night, even with different actors, then it's too risky. Theatre was superceded by film, in terms of spectacle, a long time ago. People go to the theatre to see great acting and/or song & dance numbers. If you need to embellish those things with ludicrous stunts then there's a problem with the script.
"safety inspectors with the New York State Department of Labor will pay a visit..."
wow, good timing, lol. and only after, what, 10-12 people having already been maimed or slightly injured? boy, these geniuses at the State Department really seem to have a sixth sense about these things...
Not in the "I see dead people" way, I trust.
The safety inspectors close the show, and the producers recoup on the insurance settlement. Didn't Mel Brooks already do this story?