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SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in previews at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street). Click below for a look at the production in montage, both behind the scenes and on stage! Much of this footage has been seen before in pieces during the (many) news segments about the show, but, you've been asking for it, so we've rounded it all up in one place for the first time.

Producers Jed Bernstein and Adam Zotovich announced today that their premiere Broadway production of Alfred Uhry's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Driving Miss Daisy, which is playing to sold out houses at the Golden Theatre (252 W45th Street), has recouped its initial investment of $2.6 million in less than three months, making it the first play of the 2010-11 Broadway season to celebrate recoupment.

LA CAGE AUX FOLLES is offering patrons at %40 discount on tickets for today's performances (2:30pm matinee and 8:00pm evening) due to the snow. Discounted tickets can be purchased at http://www.broadwayoffers.com/go.aspx?MD=2001&MC=Lcgna1117.

The Broadway community mourns the loss of Jerry Bock, who passed away yesterday at age 81. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in his memory tonight, November 4, at exactly 8:00pm for one minute.

George Clooney's upcoming film adaptation of the off-Broadway play Farragut North, entitled Ides of March, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Ryan Gosling, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood will begin filming next month. Clooney revealed his intentions to direct a film version of the play over three years ago. No release date has been announced.

Variety reports this morning that Wicked's Stephen Schwartz has teamed up with Slumdog Millionaire and 127 Hours composer A.R. Rahman on a new animated musical film for Dreamworks Animation entitled, Monkeys of Bollywood. Husband and wife Gurinder Chadha and Paul Berges are producing. The project, if fast tracked, will be the first musical animated feature under the Dreamworks banner.

Back at Christmas, Newsday and Bloomberg were the first publications to release reviews of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, despite the fact that the show is not set to open until next month. But, in the words of Newsday critic Linda Winer: 'After four premiere push-backs (now to Feb. 7), four high-profile injuries, 19 previews at full price ($75-$150, almost double through brokers), and public investigations by state and federal safety agencies, it seems that critics are now the only interested parties who can't see the bride before the wedding.' Both the Newsday and Bloomberg reviews were lukewarm, with Bloomberg critic Jeremy Gerard noting: On the evidence of what I saw, the second act still has yet to be completed. We might expect more of a show that has been in the works for almost nine years.'

Steppenwolf Theatre Company is pleased to announce its new American play Detroit by Lisa D'Amour and directed by ensemble member Austin Pendleton will open on Broadway early fall 2011. Detroit makes its Broadway debut following world premiere at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company, September 9 - November 7, 2010. Casting for the Broadway engagement will be announced shortly.

Broadway bound Ricky Martin has released the music video to his new single, The Best Thing About Me is You. Click below to check it out!

The Broadway League has released the latest National Economic Report for Broadway shows that toured the USA for the 2008-2009 season. Released every four years, the report measures the full economic impact of Touring Broadway to the metropolitan areas surrounding the cities that presented the shows, and the economic contribution of the Touring Broadway industry overall. Serving as the official source of Touring Broadway statistical information, The Broadway League's report demonstrates that the Touring Broadway's economic impact on the metropolitan areas in which it performs remains vibrant.

The New York Post reports this morning that at long last, the former Times Square Theater, which has stood vacant for nearly two decades on 42nd Street, may get a new lease on life. The 30,000 square foot space, which is located at 217 W. 42nd Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, will become what will be known as Broadway 4D, a multimedia venue which allegedly an insider describes as'a kind of Las Vegas version of Broadway past and present.'

The New Group is presenting BLOOD FROM A STONE through February 19 at Theatre Row. The production shots have been released and BroadwayWorld brings you a first look below!

Smuggler Films partners, John N. Hart & Patrick Milling Smith and film and theatre producers, Fred Zollo and Barbara Broccoli & Michael G Wilson have announced the creative team for upcoming stage adaptation of the 2007 Academy Award-winning film ONCE, coming to Broadway in Fall 2011. The musical will feature the Academy Award-winning music and lyrics of Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová, a book by award-winning Irish playwright & screenwriter, Enda Walsh (Penelope, Hunger, The New Electric Ballroom), direction by the acclaimed Scottish director of Black Watch, John Tiffany, design by five time Tony Award winner Bob Crowley (The Coast of Utopia, Mary Poppins). Steven Hoggett (American Idiot, Black Watch) will provide musical staging and Martin Lowe (Mamma Mia!) is the music director.

Tickets for the Broadway revival of John Guare's comedic masterpiece THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES starring Ben Stiller, Edie Falco and Jennifer Jason Leigh are now on sale exclusively to American Express card members and to the general public beginning January 15. THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES, directed by David Cromer, will open on Monday, April 25, 2011 at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). The strictly limited 16-week engagement will begin previews on Monday, April 4, 2011.

The Town Hall (123 West 43rd Street), Times Square's landmark concert venue, presents Ben Vereen in a concert on Friday, February 18 at 8:00PM that coincides with the release of his new CD 'Stepping Out With Ben Vereen' on the Ghostlight Records label. Ben Vereen is a Tony Award winning stage veteran and Broadway star.

As revealed in the New York Times, Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer may continue their collaboration on an original musical in the near future.

FACT Theatre Company and Joria Productions presents EEK, A MOUSICAL - a 21st century update based on the Aesop fable 'The Town Mouse & The Country Mouse' at Joria Mainstage from January 27th through February 5th. The new musical was written by FACT Artistic Director Jack Dyville and features Donna Vivino as Clarissa, the country mom.

A cast of seasoned West End musical theatre performers will join Rupert Young and Siobhán McCarthy in the first major revival of Stephen Sondheim's classic on the London stage in more than 15 years. Company, directed by Joe Fredericks, will feature Michelle Bishop, Katie Brayben, Greg Castiglioni, Mark Curry, Cassidy Janson, Laura Main, Leigh Mcdonald, Julia Nagle, Poppy Roe, Steven Serlin, Adam Venus and Matthew White.

DRACULA by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, based on the novel by Bram Stoker, played its final performance on Sunday, January 9 at the Little Shubert Theatre (422 West 42nd Street).

Click below to watch this just-released video from actor/comedian Randy Rainbow as he sets out to 'save' the cast of Spider-Man.