Injured Spider-Man actor cannot wait to fly again

The actor badly hurt after plunging more than 30 feet in front of a shocked audience watching the Broadway  musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" says he's itching to heal and slip back into the web-slinger's costume.

Tierney, though, is already dreaming of returning. "It's the 4-year-old version of my dream come true to be Spider-Man. I loved him when I was a kid and I still love him now," he said.

"I can't wait to get back to the show. I love being Spider-Man," Christopher Tierney said in a phone interview Monday afternoon from The Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine in Manhattan.

Tierney, 32, blames his injuries on a freak accident and doesn't accuse the producers or the creative team of carelessness. The team is led by Tony Award-winning director and book co-writer Julie Taymor of "Lion King" fame.

"This one was a bad accident. It is somebody's fault — it was a collective fault — but it's not the producers, it's not Julie," he said. "They would give us the shirts off their backs if it was the last thing they had to make sure we were OK."