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cast
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a
new
version
in
mere
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theater
world
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to
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flanked
by
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left,
and The
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at last;ithi;;;pding.
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Reeve
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an
"earnest
but
blandish"
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in the
revamped
mega-musical.
BY FR'IIIK
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Special to
Newsddy
Despite
a
dri,zzle,
last
night's private
red-carpet
premiere
of the
much-antici-
pated
Broadway
musical
"Spider-Man:
Turn Off
the
Dark"
had
the
star-studded
crowd
feeling
sunny.
'Oh,
I
take
everything
from
Spider-Man
Hi's
my
only source
of inspiratiorl'
ioked
ebrrllient
author
Sal-
man
Rushdie,
one
of a
Whit-
man's
Samplbr
of
celebrities
that included
Matt
Damon,
Spike
Lee,
Steve
Martin,
Robert
De
Niro,
Bill
Clinton,
Ben
Vereen,
Gina
Gershon,
Andrew
Lloyd
Webber,
Amy Irving,
fohn
McEnroe,
Lesley
Stahl
and
singers
Glen
Hansard
and Deborah
Cox.
They
were
among
those
massed
at
the Foxwoods
Theatre
in
Times
Square,
'where
-
after
a record-set-
ting
six months
of
previews,
a
major
overhaul
of direc-
tor
and
co-writer
fulie
".'
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,
,
NOW
Ot{UtrtE
ln
our video,
get
a
behind-the-scenes
tour
of
Broadway's
'Spider-Man'from
its
director.
Jrou,tdatreotn
/er*ertainment
spider
can:
spin
a
web, the-
ater-sized,
to
capture audi-
ences
just
like
flies.
Celeb
audiencegoer
Cindy
Crawford
said
she
thinks
it
will.
"It's
the kind
of
show
you
can
bring
the
whole family
to,"
said the
su-
permodel,
who
was
doing
just
that
with
her
business-
man
husband,
Five
Towns
native
and
Hewlett
High
School
graduate
Rande Ger-
ber,
and,
presumably,
their
two
kids.
Even
the
ousted
Taymor
was there,
prompting
fa-
mously
acerbic
fellow
invi-
tee
Fran
Lebowitz
to
say,
"What
a
good
sport "
"I'm
fine,"
a smiling
and
upbeat
Taymor
stressed.
"I'm
good.
I'm
thrilled
to
be
here."
In
answer
to a
ques-
tion
she replied,
"It's
not
bit-
tersweet.
It's
an opening.
It's
my
opening."