The Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is a go to resume performances at 8 p.m. Thursday, a spokesman said three hours before curtain — the first show since a stunt actor was seriously injured mid-performance on Monday night.
The producers canceled the musical’s two shows on Wednesday, at a cost of roughly $400,000 in ticket sales, to put a new safety plan in place for the 38 aerial and stage maneuvers in “Spider-Man” that involve actors hoisted and tethered in harnesses. State safety inspectors visited the Foxwoods Theater on Thursday afternoon and gave final approval to the new safety measures, which involve two stagehands securing each actor in a harness and then telling a stage manager that the maneuver is ready to begin, as opposed to the past practice of a single stagehand simply rigging each actor.
“All of the safety redundancies are in place,” Leo Rosales, the spokesman for the inspectors with the New York State Department of Labor, said on Thursday afternoon. Two understudies have been training and rehearsing for the last two days to step into the stunts and roles previously performed by the injured actor, Christopher Tierney, who remains hospitalized with broken ribs.
The understudies have had weeks of training on the stunts, yet Mr. Tierney has been the one performing them, including some of the $65 million show’s most elaborate sequences where characters fly over the heads of audience members.
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