New York ( CNN ) -- If `` Spider-Man : Turn Off the Dark '' can rise above devastating reviews and headline-grabbing injuries , much of the credit will go to director Philip William McKinley . McKinley was hired four months ago to salvage the troubled show , which officially opens Tuesday evening . `` Well , they say I 'm either the bravest or stupidest man in New York , '' McKinley said . As stuntmen flew overhead before an afternoon matinee preview , McKinley says he took the job in large part because of the commitment of the show 's team . `` From what the cast had gone through , I knew they had the dedication , the creativity , the formidability to do it . And that meant a great deal to me , '' he said . McKinley , a Broadway veteran , has the creative experience for the job . When `` Spider-Man 2.0 , '' the nickname for the retooled version , opens , it will have gone through millions of dollars in development costs , six delayed openings and a record-setting 180 preview performances . The original concept for `` Spider-Man '' was the vision of Julie Taymor , the Tony Award-winning director of the stage version of The Lion King . She was pushed aside by producers in March , although she reportedly retains some involvement in the show . Musical collaborators are U2 bandmates Bono and the Edge , who wrote the show 's music and lyrics , stayed on and added several new songs while rewriting a few others . Also added to the revamped show are an additional five flying sequences and expanded roles for Aunt May , Uncle Ben and love-interest Mary Jane Watson . But despite the changes , many fear the worst for the show financially . Foxwoods Theatre is one of the largest on Broadway . If `` Spider-Man '' is going to be successful , the show will have to fill the seats in the house for years to come . `` The weekly running costs just to pay the actors , the stagehands and all that stuff is $ 1.3 million , '' said NY Post Theater Critic Michael Riedel . `` Now the show is grossing , according to Variety , over a million dollars a week . But that 's just breaking even . They have n't even begun to chip away at the $ 80 million production costs . '' Still , McKinley says audiences seem to love the show . And from the very first preview since the big revamp , the cast has been pumped , he said . `` The magical moment was when the curtain went down , the cast completely lost all their composure , began jumping up and down , began high-fiving each other like at a baseball game or a football game , '' he said . `` They were just cheering. `` `` The song in the show , 'Rise Above , ' that 's kind of become our motto and kind of become the anthem . ''
Getting the production to opening night has cost an estimated $ 80 million . Musical collaborators are U2 bandmates Bono and the Edge . They have added several new songs , while rewriting a few others . The show must gross more than $ 1 million a week to meet costs .