UPDATED: "Someone call 911!": Another Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark actor injured
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark has added another cast member to its injury list, with last night’s performance being halted minutes before the final scene and the audience being quickly ushered out of the Foxwoods Theater after an actor took an 8 to 10-foot a 30-foot fall headfirst into a pit. The New York Times has video of the fall, in which Spider-Man (being played by someone other than lead Reeve Carney) dives off a platform after Mary Jane (Jennifer Damiano)—an intentional stunt that goes wrong when his safety rope appears to follow him. [UPDATE: It has since been clarified that he was never supposed to leave the platform. See below.]
According to various tweets from audience members, Damiano was soon heard “screaming and sobbing” in the darkness, then yelling, “Someone call 911!” The house lights came up, followed by an announcement that the show would be delayed; moments later another announcement was made that the show was over, and the audience was asked to leave. Ambulances and a fire truck were waiting outside, and the actor was soon brought out on a stretcher and wearing a neck brace. An e-mail from the show’s publicist offered assurance that “all signs were good” as he was being taken in for observation.