The Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man, which features music by U2’s Bono and The Edge, has opened to mixed reviews.

The $65million production, at Foxwoods Theater in New York, has been hit by a string of delays in recent months.

The opening preview on Sunday (November 28) lasted 3 hours and 20 minutes, and included a number of halts due to technical problems.

Writing in the New York Post, critic Michael Riedel called the show an “epic flop”.

“At various points, overhead stage wires dropped on the audience, scenery appeared on stage missing pieces - and the show's star was even left swaying helplessly over them midair during what was supposed to be the climatic end to the first act,” he added.

The New York Daily News also highlighted the unplanned stops, and said that by the fifth a number of audiences members left.

But speaking to the newspaper, many fans, who had paid up to $275 a ticket, were still impressed by the show.

"It was really good," Andrew Shaffer said. "I was pleasantly surprised."

Last week, Bono acknowledged that the musical’s creators had underestimated production costs.

(by Jason Gregory)