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NEW YORK, Apr 15 (UPI) -- The troubled street musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is to begin its three-week hiatus after this weekend's performances.

The popular, but critically savaged exhibit is the most pricey work mounted on street with a budget of most $70 million. It was created by writer-director Julie Taymor and features music by U2's Bono and The Edge.

After months of previews, the exhibit is shutting downbound after Sun night's performances, so it crapper be retooled by the fictive team that replaced Taymor, who was pushed out of the creation because of fictive differences. Previews are to resume May 12 and the exhibit is now regular to open June 14.

"I'm greatly saddened that the concern won't intend to see Julie's vision after the end of this week," actor Gideon Glick, who module leave the creation after Sunday, told The New royalty Times. "She aspired to exhibit the concern that comic books were conception of a larger mythos that's been around since even before the Greeks. She elevated the news of 'Spider-Man' to a cosmic level."

Although the exhibit has not officially opened, many building critics hit already presented it negative reviews. The musical's producers hit fired back, emphasizing the exhibit is a work in progress and should not be critiqued until it is completed.

Taymor's spokesman issued a evidence to the Times on the director's behalf, It said: "Julie feels that the early reviews that published before the exhibit was primed to open sadly do not reflect the exhibit that is closing this weekend. Most critics, in fact, module hit never seen this stylish edition before they see digit that greatly changes field threads of the story, dance and songs."

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