Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2

It's mentioned once upthread but the Lord of the Rings musical just missed out a bit on this kind of archival coverage -- a couple of years earlier in social media existence and more importantly never did play Broadway, only Toronto and the West End. We had a blast on our podcast talking about it and I think our show notes actually pull together the most documentation about it all around:

https://www.megaphonic.fm/bythebywater/16

But yeah, nothing will top this and I'm with Neanderthal's post for the revive. Admittedly I was having a total blast on this thread.

This is some straight up “Zoo Animals On Wheels” horror.

i regret not seeing that LotR musical in toronto but i figured it would play for more than a few months, ha

there's a 10-min video on that spider man youtube channel just called "all recorded accidents", not sure if i have the nerve to watch it

The archive might as well just be called "all recorded accidents."

They chose that song when they went on Letterman (watch the ending if nothing else)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RgR0-EWuNY

Which inspired this Comedy Bang Bang sketch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZOcPFoT6T8

cant believe they couldnt sneak Grinder Girl onstage in that Letterman clip

lol i used to work next door to this but watching that "bouncing off the walls" video is the first time i've ever heard any of the music.
sounds like what i thought it would sound like

What

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/george-santos-produced-broadway-s-spider-man-musical-at-least-he-claims-he-did

Add Broadway producer to the long list of George Santos’s fabrications.

While running for Congress in 2021, Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, according to people familiar with the discussions. That show, which ran from 2011 to 2014, was an ill-fated production that lost tens of millions of dollars and suffered from technical mishaps and actor injuries.

Here’s a guy who thought he knew how to fix the one problem with the scam in The Producers: you gotta raise money on the production *after* it fails