Spider-Man Shifts Broadway Opening Night to February 7

Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark has confirmed that its opening night will be pushed back to February 7, 2011 at the Foxwoods Theatre. This is the latest delay for the highly anticipated musical which was first expected to arrive on Broadway in February 2010. Opening night was moved to December 21 and then delayed until January 11. All preview peformances for the show will continue as planned.

"The creative team is implementing truly exciting changes throughout the preview process," lead producer Michael Cohl said in a statement. "Due to some unforeseeable setbacks, most notably the injury of a principal cast member, it has become clear that we need to give the team more time to fully execute their vision. Spider-Man, Turn Off The Dark is an extremely ambitious undertaking, as everyone knows, and I have no intention of cutting a single corner in getting to the finish line.”

Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark features a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. Reeve Carney stars as the title webslinger alongside Jennifer Damiano as Mary Jane Watson and Patrick Page as Norman Oswald/The Green Goblin.