Well as our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man was set to bring his high-flying antics to the stage, in musical form no less, the long plagued production has been forced to shut down, possibly for good after Christopher Tierney fell more than 20 feet from a platform.
Tierney fell during a scene in which Spider-Man jumps off a platform in an effort to rescue his girlfriend Mary Jane. The stuntman fell into an orchestra pit as the shocked crowd looked on.
Firefighters returned this morning to inspect the rigging. It remains unclear whether he was harnessed properly at the moment the cable snapped.
Charlie Bernard, who was in the audience, told NY1 that the cable that was supposed to be attached to the actor looked like it was either not attached properly or broken.
“You just hear a bang and then you hear the actress who plays Mary Jane, she was screaming and crying. The audience was a little disturbed and then everybody was quiet,” he said.
Mariana Leung, a blogger, wrote on the website NearSay.com that she witnessed the accident from the balcony’s front row.
“There was a scream,” wrote Leung. “A voice yelled, ‘Someone call 911!’ Then there was a silence. A minute later, the stage was still dark. Then there was an announcement that the show would be delayed. A few minutes later, a second announcement that the performance would not continue. The lights came up.”
Leung said the “shocked audience” left the theater, but that many stayed to see if the actor was OK.
It’s fugged up that homie hurt himself, but shouldn’t his “spidey sense” have tingled? *Kanye shrug*
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