{"id":1400,"date":"2011-03-14T10:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T18:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2011-03-17T10:02:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-17T18:02:38","slug":"broadway-spidey-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/broadway-spidey-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadway Spidey Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Broadway musical &#8220;Spiderman: Turn off the Dark&#8221; has  experienced major technical glitches, causing it to shut down for  another three weeks. This most recent mishap occurred Friday when the  flight system for the Green Goblin malfunctioned, leaving the actor  dangling for three minutes before stagehands could help him.<\/p>\n<p>In a string of misfortune, the opening of the show has now been delayed  six times, previews have been cancelled until May 12, and the show has  lost its director, Tony-award winning Julie Taymor, famous for &#8220;The Lion  King.&#8221; Philip William McKinley, known for &#8220;The Boy From Oz&#8221; will be  replacing Taymor.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an overall panning from critics, the show, which features music  by U2&#8217;s Bono and The Edge, has been popular with audiences and is the  second-highest grossing Broadway show this week, just behind &#8220;Wicked.&#8221;  Ticketholders can refund or exchange their tickets for later dates,  according to producers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, the Broadway musical &#8220;Spiderman: Turn off the Dark&#8221; has experienced major technical glitches, causing it to shut down for another three weeks. This most recent mishap occurred Friday when the flight system for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[789,788],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-problems-spiderman-play","tag-spiderman-broadway-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1407,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/1407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}