ACTOR INJURED IN PREVIEW OF "SPIDER-MAN" MUSICAL

Okay, is anybody else with me in that the Musical Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark is a bad idea altogether? Musicals should be about communicating the power of a Story through Song, Dance and Dialogue. When the safety of Actors is risked at the expense of wowing an audience, we have a serious problem at hand.  A Musical shouldn't have to depend on stunts and trickery to be good.

Poor Aerialist Christopher Tierney was injured on a Preview of the Spider-Man Musical last night at Foxwoods Theatre in New York City. TMZ has acquired a Video Clip recorded by an audience member on their Cell Phone as Tierney's cord had snapped less than ten minutes before the end of the show, before he had dived several feet into the audience.  He was rushed to the Hospital right after the incident.  Horrific.

The Musical co-penned by Julie Taymor, responsible for the disastrous adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest in theatres right now, and U2's Bono and The Edge, has faced multiple setbacks and delays.  This is yet another setback in what seems like a doomed venture from the start.  As of this time, tomorrow's Matinee Preview of Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark has been postponed to allow a more careful safety evaluation for the Show.

Watch the clip of the accident below from TMZ:

THE TEMPEST - FILM REVIEW

Still from The Tempest

Oh no Julie Taymor, what have you done? With consecutive sub-par efforts Across the Universe and now her adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Tempest, the talented Director is hanging on a thread in terms of Critical pardon.

Taymor takes the Comedy/Drama of The Tempest, adapting the original character of Prospero and transforming him here into a Woman - Prospera (Helen Mirren), Duchess of Milan - who has the rare ability to perform Witchcraft.  Prospera is betrayed by her Brother Antonio (Chris Cooper) who tries to usurp her throne by forcing both her and daughter Miranda (Felicity Jones) onto a boat, leaving them to die. Trapped on an island, Mother and Daughter are left to their own devices in the name of survival, taking ownership of the land they stumble upon.  They enslave the island's only inhabitant - a creature named Caliban (Djimon Hounsou).

Alonzo (David Strathairn), King of Naples, is on a mission along with Antonio, Sebastian (Alan Cumming) and Gonzalo (Tom Conti) to find his missing Son, Ferdinand (Reeve Carney). Ferdinand however, finds his way onto the island and encounters beautiful Miranda and before long they take a liking to one another, under the watchful eye of a distrustful Prospera.