Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark weavers. She was an Ancient Greek weaver who challenged Athena, the Goddess of Weaving, to a duel; Arachne who wove blasphemous images in her tapestry to mock the gods, won but was punished for her hubris by Athena, who destroyed her work with a crack of a lightning bolt. Arachne was so distraught, she hanged herself. Athena felt guilty, so she gave her eternal life in the form of the world's first spider, doomed to weave in the shadows forever, never more in the light. The scene dissolves into Queens High School where Peter Parker is presenting an oral report
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark actors have no insurance, the musical's director and producer light two Molotov cocktails and toss them, burning the theatre as they make a beeline for the exit. The May 23, 2011 episode of the satirical animated series "Mad" involved Taymor approaching the "Smallville" TV-series version of Clark Kent to cast him and the rest of the characters in "Smallville: Turn Off The Clark". At the 2011 Tony Awards, host Neil Patrick Harris tried but failed to confine himself to as many jokes about "Spider-Man" as he could complete in 30 seconds, focusing mainly on the accidents plaguing the show. In