Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2

Bono and the Edge, for their part, are expected to play a greater role; one of their songs is expected to be a new Act II opener that reflects Peter Parker’s struggle between being a young man and being Spider-man.

I'm sure these 2 new songs will save the show!

"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Spinning For"

"The Fly"?

"Stuck in a Moment," to be performed whenever an actor gets hung up during a wire stunt.

"Unforgettable Wire"

Peter Parker’s struggle between being a young man and being Spider-man.

"I Will Wallow"

i'd love it if they add menial songs for just about every possible Parker daily activity, like "Putting On My Jeans", "Aced the Chem Test", "OMG That Girl's Boobs", etc....

That sounds like a musical of the Spiderman syndicated comic strip.

"It's a puzzle
This daily grind
My head's a mess!
No sleep to find!

*pause*

But though I am dreaming
Of Mary Jane (or Sue? or Deb?)
All I want to know is...

How?
How do I?

SHOT WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEB!"

^newest director

sPIderman: Squaring The Circle

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2011/03/spidey-bites.html

"I don’t know if I should put this on the record, but I’m surprised and a little hurt that they haven’t asked me to do a cameo yet."

More Jack Kirby.

Hahah the weaselly language here:

The revamping of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark represents an unprecedented and historic moment on Broadway. The new version takes the best aspects of the original, adds great new songs by Bono and The Edge, tells the story from a different angle, and will offer an even more thrilling audience experience.

Lead producers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah J. Harris said, in a joint statement, "We salute the artists and performers who have made this show an exciting reality, and we look forward to getting to the finish line with the wonderful new version of SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark that is now in the works, with Phil McKinley at the helm."

What if "rampant performer injuries" are considered some of the "best aspects of the original"?

hahahaha

oh they'll be keeping those

Be funny (inevitable?) if the show emerges from this much better and stronger, but ticket sales drop off.

New random details or something.

Funniest detail -- the "Failure is Impossible" award.

Reports!

http://gawker.com/5801702/made+over-spider+man-musical-manages-to-not-kill-anyone-on-its-first-night-back

"opens" next Tuesday! maybe!

"Re-Imagined!"

"Now only slightly worse than seeing Paula Poundstone naked!"

The thing that made this all worth it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1DdMeVqTw

Oh that Edge, teasing Bono at the Tony Awards about now being humble. In the 2nd NY Times articel below there's the "humble" reference (it's mentioned somewhere after the part about Bono bringing takeout food from a pricey Italian restaurant to the NYC recording studio)

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/14/theater/bono-and-the-edge-explain-spider-man-back-story.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

Bono and the Edge expressed regret at not being on site during previews in December, saying they were locked into a U2 tour of New Zealand and Australia. Most Broadway composers, both veterans and especially newcomers, are in their theaters virtually every night during previews, watching and taking notes. The Edge said they watched videos of performances from Australia yet were not in the theater again until early January, by which time the musical had become a late-night TV punch line.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/arts/music/bono-and-the-edge-at-work-on-spider-man-turn-off-the-dark.html?ref=theater

The project led Bono and the Edge to try new structures. “I’d never written a waltz in my life,” the Edge said. Now he has: a mad scientist’s patter song, “D.I.Y. World,” with lines like “Designer genes are a better fit.” It’s a show-tune-y number far removed from anything in the U2 catalog.

article

“I’d never written a waltz in my life,” the Edge said. Now he has: a mad scientist’s patter song, “D.I.Y. World,” with lines like “Designer genes are a better fit.”

Yeah, stop there.

OK, gotta say, Taymor may be a piece of work, but she got hosed. Bono/Edge collaborate with her, are fully aware of her vision, like the script, support her crazy vision, write the shitty songs (which pushes them out of their comfort zone), then wait out the entire preview process until it's too late. Then they swoop back in - like superheroes!- and kick her off the project when she won't change the shitty musical they worked on together for years.

The other reading is that Bono recognized they were in over their heads, and understood she had to go to remotely save his investment of time and money. Though from that article it seem as if Bono was smart enough not to put any of his own money into this. Edge, not so lucky.

Asked whether he and Bono plotted against Ms. Taymor, the Edge replied: “Julie was clearly exhausted, overwrought, and we all thought that if we don’t tread carefully, she’s going to walk. We were tip-toeing around her, and I think that probably meant that people were careful in what they said or told her. I certainly didn’t feel I could be 100 percent frank with Julie, and that was because I felt she was carrying so much of the weight.”

so she took the fall eh? pun intended

I guess this would be what people refer to as "throwing someone under the bus"

idk if it's that easy to shift blame onto Bono and The Edge in this case though....

I'm pretty sure it was known well in advance they'd be on tour during Previews

it's just the show was supposed to have been opened by then, and not be in previews anymore

Wasn't the U2 tour postponed for a year when Bono had a back operation? So maybe that wasn't on the original slate. Anyway, it sounds like their participation was passive at best until the shit hit the fan, then they decided to place the blame squarely on Taymor to save face/money.

idk, from what I read in the theatre community, she was extremely resistant to make changes suggested to her from the outside, ones that were eventually made after her ouster (ie, the removal of the Geek Chorus, the stupid song about shoes, etc)

According to that article, she was extremely resistant to make changes ... after all those months and months of development and previews. But no one asked her to make major changes until the very, very, very end, after it had shut down. There were plenty of opportunities to change the production in the months (and years!) preceding that, but the U2 guys (who OK'd her vision) were apparently AWOL.

I mean, if you read that article, even Bono seems bored of the whole thing by now, and was likely obligated to see this through to fruition. Anyone remember U2's aborted stage version of "A Clockwork Orange?"

Heartwarming.

Mr. Clinton applauded after every song and laughed heartily during a scene in which the villain Green Goblin becomes irked by an elaborate voice mail system.

sesame street spidermonster is beyond classic. bono muppet!

The mega-expensive musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” is no longer the ungodly, indecipherable mess it was in February. It’s just a bore

NY Times

I saw Bono and the Edge on NBC news last night saying the show was 90% ready. Still 10 % away?

"You'll applaud after every song if you're seated next to Bono!" - Bill Clinton

LOL michael musto

The tonal shifts are uncomfortable, but what's worse is the fact that most of the times someone opens their mouth to sing, you want to reach for the Raid can. Bono has moaned that Julie Taymor was too close to the material to accept criticism, which is what I've said all along, but his and the Edge's score is not exactly inspired, so should he be the one to complain? Maybe they should have called Elton John for lessons on how to write pop-rock music for the theater—or perhaps just trotted out their old hits and set the show on "New Year's Day."

you end up humming the scenery

Is that even legal.

But I feel they should retool this show one more time and use music by Adam and the Ants.

I WOULD SEE THIS.

"Broadway extrava-gorgonzola"