Spiderman Tickets: An Iconic Tale
February 1, 2011
Spiderman theater tickets continue to outsell virtually every other show on Broadway, and one of the actors, Green Goblin Patrick Page, has spoken about his experiences in the biggest Broadway smash in recent years. Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark tickets have even sold more than Wicked the Musical and is showing no sign of slowing down its awesome run on the Great White Way.
Page also spoke about fellow Spiderman actor Christopher Tierney’s infamous fall onstage and other Spidey-related controversy.
“All of us our hearts when into our throats, our stomach’s clenched up, it was one of the worst nights I can remember,” he recalled from the evening of Tierney’s much-publicized mishap. Page also spoke about allaying audiences’ fears about the dangers of appearing in such an active and exciting theatrical production.
“If they think the show is unsafe I always try to reassure them that not only is our show safe, it’s probably the safest show on Broadway,” Page says.
With direction by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor and brilliant music and lyrics by U2 superstars Bono and The Edge, Spiderman is without doubt one of the most accomplished shows ever staged anywhere in the world. It is no surprise Spiderman tickets are selling so well and has created an iconic character on Broadway. The sheer ambition of Spiderman Turn Off The Dark dwarves all other Broadway productions. Spiderman has for decades been the figurehead of Marvel comic books, and the Spiderman schedule is expected to run for a while yet. The story of student Peter Parker, the teenager bitten by a radioactive spider that gives him super-powers, is well known, but never have Spiderman fans had the chance to see his adventures enacted by real people before their eyes, and they are buying Spidey tickets in huger numbers.
The beauty of the Spiderman story is that it teaches the flip side of great power – that of accepting responsibility for one’s place in society, and how we use our skills to make society a safer and better place. Spiderman tickets are the number one ticket on Broadway as we speak, and it looks like that won’t change anytime soon.
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