The first preview on Nov. 28 did not go well. The musical had to be halted five times because of technical glitches and Mendoza was hit in the head by a rope and suffered a concussion. Her injury would eventually keep her sidelined for two weeks. The show – whose c...
The long-awaited Spider-Man musical with music byU2members Bono and The Edge, will open on Broadway in December, the show’s producers said on Tuesday, after being caught in financial problems. “Spider-Man Turn Off The Dark,” which has been in the making for several years and was origi...
The guitarist was keen not to describe the production, directed by Julie Taymor, as a musical, but rather an "opera". "It is a new challenge. The thing is we don't really like musicals. Most musicals are really pants. They're really not very cool," said The Edge. "It is much mor...
and most panned it. Taymor was forced out, and playwright and Marvel comics writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa was brought in tocollaborateon revisions to the script. The musical finally opened in June 2011; the critics’ reviews were still mostly negative, but the show, nevertheless, remained popular...
The performers Jet and Maroon 5 manage to participate without losing their dignity, but the performers Train, Hoobastank and the rest bring on musical pyrotechnics with dollar signs burning in their eyes.EBSCO_AspRolling Stone
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She next began work onSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a Broadway musical that she signed on to direct, with Bono and the Edge of the band U2 as its composers. The production, nine years in the making, was riddled with problems, and Taymor was fired from her position in… ...
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a musical based on the character Spider-Man, with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The story incorporates elements of the 2002 Spider-Man film and the Greek myth of Arachne. It...
I feel so lucky to have been a part of it and to have the opportunity to create a whole new musical universe for one of the world’s most beloved superheroes – Spider-Man.“ ABOUT DANIEL PEMBERTONDaniel Pemberton is a multi-Golden Globe, Emmy and Bafta Award-nominated compo...