STAGE TUBE: Katie Couric Airs Preview of Tonight's WCBS Christopher Tierney SPIDER-MAN Interview

WCBS TV's Dana Tyler has scored the first interview with SPIDER-MAN's Christopher Tierney, which will air on WCBS news on January 3, 2011 at 11pm EST.

The CBS EVENING NEWS WITH Katie Couric (6:30 PM, ET) broadcast an excerpt tonight from WCBS-TV News Anchor Dana Tyler's exclusive interview with Christopher Tierney, the actor seriously injured the Broadway musical, "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark." This is Tierney's first interview since falling 30 feet during the show's December 20 performance, suffering a skull fracture and cracked vertebrae.

Tyler's exclusive, complete interview will air tonight on WCBS-TV's CBS 2 News at 11 PM.

In promos, he tells CBS 2's Dana Tyler that "I was falling and then I saw once I hit the darkness of the stage, I had to just turn it real quick so I wasn't going to fall on my head and I crashed on my back."

We reported earlier in the week that injured SPIDER-MAN actor Christopher Tierney has left the intensive care unit and has been transferred to a New York City rehabilitation facility, according to his father. Tim Tierney added that his son is now able to walk with the help of a full-torso brace. It's also interesting that yesterday, President of Actors' Equity Nick Wyman put out a lengthy and heated statement about the Actors' Union's position about the entire safety situation at the mega-million dollar musical and opened somewhat stunned that the press has been calling Mr. Tierney a stuntman, which has been repeatedly put out there and is not a true statement. He's an actor that's been gainfully employed by the union.

On December 20, Christopher Tierney suffered an accident which caused the actor to fall 30 feet. Tierney sustained a fracture in his skull, a broken scapula, a broken bone close to his elbow, 4 broken ribs, a bruised lung and 3 fractured vertebrae.

The production's opening night, (previously set for January 11, 2011) is still set to open on Monday, February 7. Directed by Julie Taymor and featuring a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, and new music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge, SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark is now in previews at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre (213 West 42nd Street).

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