Actor hospitalized after injuring leg during Spider-Man performance on Broadway

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FILE - In this Dec. 22, 2010 file photo, posters for the Broadway musical "Spider-Man Turn: Off the Dark" hang outside the Foxwoods Theatre in New York. A spokesman for the show says an actor on the set of the Broadway musical was injured during a night performance, Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013. The performance was halted. The actor, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a serious leg injury, was not identified. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – An actor on the set of the Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” has been injured during a performance.

A spokesman for the show says the actor suffered an injury during the Thursday night performance, which was immediately halted. The actor, who was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a serious leg injury, was not identified.

Fire officials say they responded to the Foxwoods Theatre on West 42nd Street shortly after 9 p.m. to treat a man whose leg got caught in equipment backstage.

The show’s spokesman, Rick Miramontez, says more information will be made available Friday.

It was just the latest in a series of accidents that have left several actors in the stunt-heavy $75 million show hurt or hospitalized.

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