Injured Spider-Man actor Christopher Tierney celebrated his first day back on the troubled Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark today and reporters immediately asked the 31-year-old actor if he was nuts for returning.
"Yes, slightly,” Tierney told The Hollywood Reporter. “But anybody who knows me longer than 10 minutes.”
Tierney was involved in the show’s worst accident when he fell 20 feet into the orchestra pit during an early preview performance and broke several ribs and injured his back.
Tierney underwent back surgery and vowed to return to the show and today he achieved his goal.
"His back is fine," producer Michael Cohl said earlier. "They've taken the bolts and the nuts and everything out."
Tierney added that additional safety protocols have made all the flying and acrobatic stunts perfectly safe.
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is on hiatus as its new creative team worked feverishly to improve the show.
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is scheduled to return as a revamped show on June 14.