The new Broadway production of Spider-Man, directed by Julie Taymor, is set to become the most expensive show in history, at $35m to $40m. “If – and it’s a big “if” where Julie The Lion Taymor is concerned – they do bring it in for $35 million, Spider-Man, with a weekly running cost of $1 million, will have to run about 8,000 years in a Broadway theater just to break even.”