STAGE TUBE: The Today Show Profiles the Challenges of First SPIDEY Preview

On Sunday, November 28, the highly anticipated SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark had its first preview on Broadway. Message boards and Twitter were abuzz throughout the show, as audiences sat through 4 technical stops in Act 1, and 1 in Act 2 as well as an elongated intermission and one heckler, but the show as performed from beginning to end.

The show also garnered what was most likely the most press coverage of a first preview in history. For a small preview -- check out The New York Times, The New York Post and The Wall Street Journal and of course -- Rialto Chatter. And, even geek movie site - Ain't It Cool News.

The Today Show is also in on the action, and takes you inside the challenges of the first preview below!

Also, if you missed the show's preview on 60 Minutes last night, click here to watch.

SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark began preview performances on Broadway on Sunday, November 28, 2010, at 6:30 p.m. Opening Night is now set for Tuesday evening, January 11, 2011. Directed byJulie 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 will open at Broadway's Foxwoods Theatre 213 West 42nd Street.