Jimmy Kimmel Takes On Spiderman

It's time once again to check in with the theatrical soap opera that is Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark.  Last week, the mega-budgeted and even more mega-troubled production delayed its official Broadway opening for the sixth time.  The production team also essentially canned director Julie Taymor, and announced that the show will shut down for more than three weeks starting April 19 to completely re-work the show in time for the new opening night of June 14.

Maybe they're hoping this will be a long enough delay for the critics to forget about all of those scathing reviews they pounded the show with last month.  Who knows?  Needless to say, the drama surrounding the production has been ripe for parody, including some hilarious spoofs on both SNL and Conan. 

Now Jimmy Kimmel has given us his own take on the re-worked version of Spiderman by turning it into a new version of the classic Arthur Miller play Death of a Salesman.  Considering what I've heard about the show so far (and I will be seeing this train wreck before it shuts down next month), this is most likely an improvement: