To everybody who said years ago that bringing Spider-Man to Broadway was a bad idea: Buy yourself a cookie. You were correct.
After suffering through technical hang ups, multiple cast injuries, and a generally horrible response to advance shows, the sixty five million dollar Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Broadway musical has now delayed its official opening until June - a whopping sixth delay to the opening date, which means that $65 mil number is actually much higher by now as rent and salaries need to be paid all the way along - to allow time for extensive rewrites to the script, reworked music (sorry Bono), new sound design and alterations to the staging. Presumably so that they can stop breaking their actors. Oh, and director Julie Taymor? She's gone, too.
Taking over the rewrite is Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa - a playwright who also has experience writing for the Spider-Man comics - and director Phil McKinley. Though the director change is being presented as a scheduling conflict there have been rumblings that Taymor would be fired for a while and my guess is that if this was voluntary on her part then it was a case of jumping before being pushed.
At this point the changes aren't even about saving the show, I don't think. They're past that. The PR damage is done and they're bleeding cash. This is about damage control and trying desperately to keep the show from going into the record books as one of the costliest flops in Broadway history.