'Spider-Man' Actor Injured In Stage Fall, Twitter Reacts

The Huffington Post   Jonah Green   First Posted: 12/22/10 10:48 AM ET   Updated: 05/25/11 07:20 PM ET

The $65 million broadway spectacle 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' sure has had its share of woes lately. The would-be blockbuster, directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono, has seen budget problems and multiple safety hazards, including four on-stage injuries. On Monday Christopher Tierney, a Spider-Man stunt double, plunged 30 feet when his rope snapped, and reportedly suffered broken ribs and internal bleeding after the fall. With Tierney is still in the hospital, producers of the show say performances will resume on Wednesday.

While the injuries the actor sustained are very real, the problems plaguing this promising-yet-immensely-expensive production, and all those punny headlines about Spider-Man's web of problems, have activated a large response from Broadway's tweeting community.

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The $65 million broadway spectacle 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' sure has had its share of woes lately. The would-be blockbuster, directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono, has seen budget problem...
The $65 million broadway spectacle 'Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark' sure has had its share of woes lately. The would-be blockbuster, directed by Julie Taymor with music by Bono, has seen budget problem...
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Max19th
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07:49 AM on 12/26/2010
Thank god twitter got involved. I was beginning to think this catastrophe would go un noticed.
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James v Morris
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10:58 PM on 12/23/2010
I remember when the Broadway stage was not littered with mindless tourist attractions.

Those were the days!
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raker
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09:28 AM on 12/29/2010
And I remember when you could go to a Broadway play and be exhilarated to see something substantial, not just a 90-minute, no-intermission, home-by-11 idea of a play.
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CarlynMary
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08:25 PM on 12/22/2010
The comments you chose to follow Jesse Tyler Ferguson's tweet range from the inane to the heinous. Exactly who thought these merited being published?!
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ProfessorDuh
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10:57 AM on 12/22/2010
They're going to get somebody killed chasing their multi-million-dollar disaster. With great box office comes no responsibility, apparently.
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