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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 1)

Joining me today to discuss one of the most disastrous Broadway Musicals ever - Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Is comedian and friend Suzi Ruffell

There are Broadway musicals that become legends…

…and then there are Broadway musicals that become infamous cautionary tales.

From the creators of The Lion King and the visionary minds of Bono and The Edge came a musical so ambitious… so expensive… so unbelievably cursed…

…it made critics beg for intermission.

Budget problems. Flying accidents. Preview delays.

I could go on… so I will…

Six directors. Millions over budget.

And enough backstage panic to power all of Times Square.

This wasn’t just a musical.

It was a catastrophe with merchandise.

This is the unbelievable true story of the big budget Broadway musical disaster -

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.

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The Millennium Dome (Part 2)

Joining me today to discuss the infamous, and at times unexpected story of one of modern Britain’s greatest folly’s turned success stories - The Millennium Dome, is comedian Matthew CrosbyComing up in...

3 Loka 34min

The Millennium Dome (Part 1)

26 Syys 41min

Siegfried & Roy (Part 3)

Still to come in part 3 is the aftermath of the tiger attack - including conspiracy theories, lawsuits, and countless controversies as the legendary duo's dominance of the Las Vegas entertainment land...

23 Syys 31min

Siegfried & Roy (Part 2)

Welcome back to part 2… Coming up in this part we've got tiger attacks, lawsuits and conspiracy theories as the Siegfried and Roy juggernaut starts to derail at the height of their fame. But we kick t...

19 Syys 31min

Siegfried & Roy (Part 1)

Las Vegas - 1967…Two young men from Germany, united by a love of magic, spectacle and one extraordinary obsession, arrive in Nevada with almost nothing to their name…Siegfried and Roy - two showmen th...

17 Syys 44min

Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 4)

Welcome back to part 4 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… the controversy surrounding the film 'Natural Born Killers' (1994)And an amusing case of the BBFC getti...

7 Elo 32min

Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 3)

Welcome back to part 3 of the story of Mary Whitehouse, Video Nasties and the Censorship debate… in this episode we discuss infamous video nasties titles such as Cannibal Holocaust and I Spit on your ...

1 Elo 36min

Video Nasties, Mary Whitehouse and Censorship (Part 2)

Coming up in part 2 we discuss the formation of the BBFC (that’s the British Board of film classification to you and I) the birth of VHS…And the Video Nasties craze hits boiling point as infamous titl...

25 Heinä 37min