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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Theater / Nerd I Don't Know if One Year Is Enough Time to Prepare Myself

Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Group tickets to the new Broadway musical Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark are available now. It opens on February 18, 2010.

Directed by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor with 22-time Grammy Award-winning Bono and The Edge creating new music and lyrics, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark will be written by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. Julie Taymor is best known as director of one of the most successful musicals in Broadway history, Disney’s The Lion King and the film Across The Universe. Bono and The Edge are half of one of the most popular rock bands of all time, U2, who will be making their Broadway debut.

I think the title is freshly announced, too. Note the lack of colon. It's not Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, it's Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. I really hope this musical gets a Seattle test-run. I feel as though I have to see this thing, and I don't think we're looking at the show that will break The Phantom of the Opera's record of longest-running musical of all time.

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And the Crank 2 trailer is floating around the Internet.

Posted by Abby on February 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM

Directed by Julie Taymor and with music by Bono and the Edge, this musical is going to be either phenomenal or historically terrible. There will be no in-between.

Posted by Bub on February 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM

I'm mostly excited that former local playwright Glen Berger is attached to this! Who new that the great men of science #'s 23 and 24 were going to br Doc Oc and a green Willem Defoe.

Posted by smucker on February 24, 2009 at 12:48 PM

Whatever it turns out to be, it will at least be better than Cats.

Posted by Greg on February 24, 2009 at 1:18 PM

I'm guessing that the fantastic book, Not Since Carrie, which is about Broadway's biggest flops will soon be retitled and reissued as Not Since Spidey...

Posted by michael strangeways on February 24, 2009 at 4:06 PM

My reaction is the same as it is every time I find out what the next thing is that Julie Taymor is doing: Holy crap. Really?? Yikes. ...Yay?

I mean, she turned the Lion King from an okay-ish Disney movie into something that adults were fighting each other to go see, so this could turn out pretty well.

Also, she's an Oberlin grad. That's a plus.

Posted by Becca on February 24, 2009 at 6:47 PM