A shot from the Broadway show 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.'

Spider-Man Goes Dark

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 3, 2014

As the musical production plagued by injuries and lawsuits over creative control closes on Broadway, Glen Berger, playwright, co-writer of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," and the author of Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History (Simon & Schuster, 2013), looks back on where the creative process went wrong and listeners share their stories of spectacular failure, and rebounding.

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