NEW YORK — Taking a page from the comics, producers of Broadway’s “Spider-Man” musical hope their battered hero can somehow return from the dead.
“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Broadway’s most expensive and audacious show, emerged from a three-week hiatus Thursday night with what the creative team and producers say is a cleaner story, tighter music and more love story.
About a dozen people were waiting for the box office at the Foxwoods Theatre to open to buy tickets Thursday morning. Rick Miramontez, a show spokesman, said tickets to the new show are “selling briskly,” though the show’s own website indicated dozens of available seats for the next few days.
Some ticket brokers were even offering up to 40 percent off orchestra and balcony seats.
The $70 million musical, with music by U2’s Bono and The Edge, reopens with most of the cast intact but without the visionary Julie Taymor as director.
Playwright Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, director Philip William McKinley and choreographer Chase Brock cleaned up a story that had wandered into darker and mythological themes, while Bono and The Edge reworked the songs. More flying stunts were added, and the romance between Peter Parker and Mary Jane returned to center stage.
The original show began previews in November and soon went bad. Performances were canceled and stunts went awry, leaving actors trapped hanging over the audience. There were five major accidents involving cast members.
