Spider-Man: The Musical, music by U2

getaway stayaway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt52nJWik4A

We saw one of the Julie Taymor previews. The crowd was giddy, the show was crazy and carnival-like. A+

can we get an Ant-Man musical now

keep Reed on, make it a crossover with Down With Love

Up with Ant-man?

Up With Giant-Man

i miss when this was all that was going on in the world

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

Crap. This gets you there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkLi5F0G0Hw

https://aux.avclub.com/how-youtube-is-keeping-the-memory-of-spider-man-turn-o-1846832894

I still can't believe that this happened

guess we'll never get follow-up musical Hulk Hop Hooray

I mean, I do and I don't want to get lost in that Archive, but shit like this is like Batman & Robin: The Movie, The Musical:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK46JScH2XI

god bless those archivists

i'm sure once his harness failed, he became Brown Goblin

Goblin doing stand-up, then transitioning into a dance-pop tune. never knew I wanted this in my life. well because I didn't. but watch I do

On November 19, 2013, producers announced that the show would close on January 4, 2014, citing falling ticket sales[26] and no longer being able to get injury insurance for the production as reasons for closure.[27]

lmao

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