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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 4)

In the final part of this incredible story of the Spiderman Broadwy musical - Turn off the dark, we discover the true cost, both finanical and emotional, of the infamous show.
How did it measure up to other notorious Broadway bombs?
Was it really a failure? And if so, who was to blame?

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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 3)
In this episode the Spiderman Broadway show is hit by casting issues, money issues, and theatre issues. Bascially, anything that can go wrong does. Will the show ever open? And at what cost?

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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2)

In this episode we discuss the genesis story of the band whose two members soundtrack the doomed musical - rock legends U2.
And we start to get a sense of the various egos orbiting the broadway show as it starts to take shape. You could say the warning signs were there from the start....

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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)

Joining me today to discuss one of the most disastrous Broadway Musicals ever - Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell

There are Broadway musicals that become legends…
…and then there are Broadway musicals that become infamous cautionary tales.
From the creators of The Lion King and the visionary minds of Bono and The Edge came a musical so ambitious… so expensive… so unbelievably cursed…
…it made critics beg for intermission.
Budget problems. Flying accidents. Preview delays.
I could go on… so I will…
Six directors. Millions over budget.
And enough backstage panic to power all of Times Square.
This wasn’t just a musical.
It was a catastrophe with merchandise.
This is the unbelievable true story of the big budget Broadway musical disaster -
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

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EPISODE 3
Welcome back to the final part of the life and work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
If you thought the first two parts were a rollercoaster, incredibly his life story is about to take even more wild twists and turns!!!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle faces a series of tragic life events, before he finds himself embroiled in multiple controversies and scandals surrounding clairvoyants, fake fossils and counterfeit photographs of fairies.

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