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"Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark broke Broadway box office records over the New Year weekend, it has been revealed. The show achieved the highest-ever single-week gross of any Broadway show in history. It brought in $2,941,790 (\u00C2\u00A31,880,097) for the week ending January 1, beating the previous record set by Wicked in 2011. It also set the record for the highest single-week attendance for any show in Broadway history. Producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris said: &amp;quot;We are thrilled that the public has taken such a liking to this show. The audience continues to grow, and it is great to enter the New Year with such momentum.&amp;quot; The show began preview performance in November 2010, before enduring a troubled development cycle, budget issues, cast injuries and negative reviews. Director Julie Taymor left the production in March last year and a radical overhaul was put into place. Soon afterwards it became a box office success. According to reported estimates, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark needs to make $1.2 million (\u00C2\u00A3776,000) a week in order to cover costs. &amp;gt; Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark co-creator Julie Taymor sues producers "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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