Broadway’s “Spider-Man” producers, Taymor, near settlement, again

NEW YORK, Jan 24: The producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark” and Julie Taymor, the musical’s ousted director, are once again ready to settle their long-running court case, a court filing showed yesterday. “We anticipate notifying the Court within the next week that a final settlement agreement has been executed,” attorney Charles T. Spada, who represents Taymor, wrote in a January 22 letter to US District Judge Katherine Forrest in Manhattan. (agencies)