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Looking back at the year of the 'Spider'

Linda Winer

Newsday theater critic and arts columnist Linda Winer. Linda Winer

Winer is chief theater critic and arts columnist for Newsday,

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Seems like only yesterday -- just kidding, it seems like a lifetime ago -- that a little show called "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" took its fledgling flight.

But tomorrow is the first anniversary of the first preview of what became Broadway's most-delayed (six times), most injury-hexed (six, including the head gash suffered this month by matinee-Spidey Matthew James Thomas), most expensive...

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