We never tire of talking about the clearly doomed sure to be tremendous musical Spider-Man: Flip The Off Switch On The Absence Of Illumination (or something like that). Last time, we reported that the play had lost their Arachne, Natalie Mendoza, who left because she was still having problems from an on-set injury. We’ve also reported the terrible accident in which aerialist/actor Christopher Tierney fell 30 feet (video) when a safety cable failed. Now we have an update on both.
Mendoza is being replaced by T.V. Carpio (pictured above left), who has already played Arachne in some performances. Meanwhile, WCBS-TV got the first television interview with Christopher Tierney after his accident (video below). Reporter Dana Tyler asked him if he would be taking legal action and he said, “No, I don’t need to.” There were some other interesting quotes. Compare and contrast these two for example:
I wasn’t scared. These guys, they know safety. The wires have 9000 pounds of tension strength. I trust them explicitly. With my life. Yeah, absolutely. They don’t mess around.
[…] I was tethered to my back, but it just didn’t get tethered to the stage.
That seems professional. Tierney goes on to say he has four broken ribs, three fractured vertebrae, FIVE GOLDEN RINGS, a fractured scapula, fractured elbow, and a fracture to the back of his skull. He doesn’t seem at all mad about it though:
The person involved, the people involved, we’ve already they came and visit and we’ve seen completely, like, water under the bridge and forgiven and forgotten.
[…] I’m glad, glad to be working on the show. I mean not glad. Overjoyed to be working on the show.
Dude, if Julie Taymor is hiding behind that hospital curtain with a cattle prod, just blink three times. We’ll discreetly go for help.
[via SuperHeroHype and Reuters]