During the 2010 Tony Awards , host Sean Hayes ran on stage dressed as Spider-Man , struggling comically to sing through the mask . After the first preview performance , Conan O'Brien featured his own " preview " of the show , demonstrating how the show could have been more inexpensively produced , in ways that included using Silly String for web-slinging stunts . The cover of the January 17 , 2011 '' The New Yorker '' featured a cartoon , by Barry Blitt , showing multiple actors dressed as Spider-Man wearing casts or a head brace or in rehab , parodying the cast injuries in the show
2010 Tony Awards
64th Tony Awards
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark