Everyone's favorite web-crawler (sorry, Charlotte) is poised to make his Broadway debut — in a musical! That's not even the crazy part. Per Variety:
Helmed by Julie Taymor ("The Lion King"), "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" will have music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, both of U2. Taymor and Glen Berger ("Underneath the Lintel") pen the book.
Julie Taymor? Bono and The Edge? That's some major star-power in the playbill. My gut instint is to call all of these people insane and rant about how a Spider-Man musical is just about the dumbest fucking idea I have ever heard. Only problem: It isn't.
This article appears in Feb 18-24, 2009.