Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark‘s long road to Broadway just hit its scariest snag. Already infamous for the technical delays and cast injuries that have plagued its preview performances, lat’s night’s show was brought to a premature end when aeralist Christopher Tierney fell off a stage platform high above the audience. A stagehand told Broadway World that Tierney was to appear to jump as the lights went black, but the cable keeping him from actually going over snapped. “An actor sustained an injury at tonight’s performance of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark,” confirmed a rep for the show. “He fell several feet from a platform approximately seven minutes before the end of the performance, and the show was stopped. All signs were good as he was taken to the hospital for observation.”
According to multiple witnesses in the audience, an actress dangling below the platform, Natalie Mendoza, could be heard screaming as Tierney fell past her. The actor was removed with a stretcher and back brace, but paramedics did not speed from the scene, suggesting his condition is stable. See video of the fall after the jump.
With the musical’s official debut already pushed to February, there has been no word if Tierney’s injury will affect future previews.
