Saved From Development Hell: Difference between revisions

* ''Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark'' may be the ultimate theater example. After being batted around since 2007, was finally supposed to open in February 2010. As of November 2010, it has had precisely one preview (in which the [[We Are Experiencing Technical Difficulties|technical difficulties]] that had caused the production to be so delayed in the first place still occurred and [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/theater/29spiderman.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2 delayed the performance by over thirty minutes at one point]).

** It has an announced opening on March 2011, which the producers said was "the final postponement". [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/14/theater/spider-man-a-superlative-for-all-the-wrong-reasons.html?src=dayp Nobody bought it], and was postponed for summer. Considering how [http://www.avclub.com/articles/spiderman-turn-off-the-dark-terrible-or-make-it-st,51518/ the first reviews] went those extra months better upgrade the show...

* The Broadway revival of ''[[Godspell]]'' was scheduled to open at the end of 2008; it lost a producer and thus didn't open until the fall of 2011.