If you won’t release me stop to please me up the leg of me
How do you convert the whizz-bang acrobatics of Spider-Man into a live Broadway show? (…)
The show – directed by the award-winning creator of The Lion King, Julie Taymor, and with music by Bono and The Edge of U2 – had to be stopped five times to correct faulty technical equipment. (…) Reeve Carney, playing the superhero, was left swinging helplessly above the audience.
It took stage hands almost a minute to catch Carney by the feet to drag him down, and later there was some heckling.