You’ll never guess who is suing the producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”.
No, really. Go ahead, try to guess.
Did you guess Julie Taymor? Very good. Take two gold stars and advance to the next blue square.
In recent months the producers of “Spider-Man” have been facing hard financial choices. Since opening to mixed reviews in June, “Spider-Man” has been one of the top-grossing shows on Broadway, regularly pulling in between $1.4 million and $1.6 million a week. Yet the weekly operating costs for this technically ambitious production total more than $1 million, and the producers have also had to make payments on loans they took out to mount “Spider-Man,” a show twice as expensive as any in Broadway history. Given the size of the production and the creative team, the producers also have an array of royalty obligations to several different artists.
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