'Spider-Man' musical: Worst Broadway show ever?

The "grievously broken" Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is well beyond repair, says a scathing review in The New York Times. Does anyone apart from Glenn Beck like the show?

After repeated delays, bad buzz, and cast injuries, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is now battling a barrage of negative reviews.
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Critics have finally weighed in on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the disaster-prone $65 million superhero musical — and the results aren't pretty. The New York Times' esteemed reviewer Ben Brantley was just one of many critics to give Julie Taymor's show an emphatic thumbs down. Only Glenn Beck has offered an unqualified good review. Theater critics ordinarily don't review a show until opening night — but decided to contravene their own rule in dismay at the show's seemingly endless run of preview performances (It officially opens on March 15). Here's what they had to say:

Broadway theater doesn't get much worse than this: "Spider-Man is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway," says Brantley in The New York Times. "It may also rank among the worst." The sets are "flat and cardboardish," the masks "grotesque," and U2's songs reminiscent of a "persistent headache." Forget waiting until opening night. This show is already so "grievously broken in every respect that it is beyond repair."

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