Spider-Man: The Musical

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Glitch Girl

February 24, 2009, 09:49:24 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2009, 10:03:13 PM by Glitch Girl
U2-Powered Spider-Man Musical Gets Premiere Date
QuoteSpider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the hyped stage musical directed by Julie Taymor (The Lion King) with music and lyrics courtesy of U2's Bono and The Edge, will kick off what its producers hope will be an amazing run along the Great White Way beginning with previews on Jan. 16, 2010, and a Feb. 18, 2010, opening night.

:blink: I swear, I can't make up stuff this off-the-wall.
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BentonGrey

#1
February 24, 2009, 10:13:49 PM
I have no idea what to say to that.
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zuludelta

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February 24, 2009, 10:31:06 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2009, 10:33:18 PM by zuludelta
I don't know if anyone else here remembers it, but remember waaaay back in the mid-1980s, when Stan Lee (or was it one of then Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter or Tom DeFalco) posted an audition ad in the monthly Bullpen page for a kid's role in an off-Broadway Spider-Man musical that never went into production? (IIRC, they were looking for "a boy or a girl, 8 to 10 years old, loves to dance, act, and sing")

I wonder if this musical is a reworking and revival of that old project?
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danhagen

#3
February 25, 2009, 02:17:24 PM
There was also a Captain America musical under consideration several years ago. Somehow, that seems more Broadway than Spidey.
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Tortuga

#4
February 25, 2009, 06:06:51 PM
Quote...music and lyrics courtesy of U2's Bono and The Edge...

A Spidey musical is weird enough as it is but this info is just plain bizarre.

Gremlin

#5
February 26, 2009, 12:30:44 AM
Quote from: Tortuga on February 25, 2009, 06:06:51 PM
Quote...music and lyrics courtesy of U2's Bono and The Edge...

A Spidey musical is weird enough as it is but this info is just plain bizarre.

Not really. David Bryan of Bon Jovi just wrote the music for the new show "Memphis." I think it's kinda neat.

(Of course, Memphis wasn't really that great...but still. ;))

docdelorean88

#6
February 26, 2009, 01:11:22 AM
I'm intreiged to say the least... :mellow: :blink: :)
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vamp

#7
February 26, 2009, 03:02:12 AM
*Has a spider-man 3 flash-back and shudders*

Cardmaster

#8
February 26, 2009, 03:05:32 AM
This could be very, very bad...
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Ares_God_of_War

#9
February 26, 2009, 06:52:52 AM
The last time U2 did something for Superheros it was a godaweful batman movie so I dont know what else to say
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BWPS

#10
February 26, 2009, 07:45:07 AM
Quote from: Ares_God_of_War on February 26, 2009, 06:52:52 AM
The last time U2 did something for Superheros it was a godaweful batman movie so I dont know what else to say
HMTMKMKM is the best U2 song ever by far, though.

I heard about this 3 years ago on NPR. Pretty stupid idea. How can Spider-Man be good on a stage? Bah, BAH I say.
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Midnight

#11
February 27, 2009, 12:36:21 PM
I think I know one of the assistant lighting designers. This has been in the works for ages and has shown up on this forum more than once by the by. :)

Glitch Girl

#12
August 14, 2009, 04:19:51 PM
Bringing the thread back from the dead to report the project may BE dead...

Latest notes on a troubled musical

Short version: Production suspended, lead actors released from contracts, "cash-flow obstacles" have not been overcome, "Mary Jane" is going after movie roles she previously turned down to do said musical, and yet, it's STILL scheduled to premiere in February.  

Well, it could be worse...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4

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Gremlin

#13
August 14, 2009, 05:54:01 PM
Quote from: Glitch Girl on August 14, 2009, 04:19:51 PM
Bringing the thread back from the dead to report the project may BE dead...

Latest notes on a troubled musical

Short version: Production suspended, lead actors released from contracts, "cash-flow obstacles" have not been overcome, "Mary Jane" is going after movie roles she previously turned down to do said musical, and yet, it's STILL scheduled to premiere in February.  

Well, it could be worse...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebI8H5nq5L4



No, because that is awesome.

JeyNyce

#14
August 14, 2009, 07:56:07 PM
I kept seeing ads and interviews on Marvel website, but I just couldn't believe that they were going to do it.

It could be worst

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDR-XvJpqBk
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Glitch Girl

#15
August 14, 2009, 08:18:53 PM
@Gremlin:

"It's shway!"

"It's shwarbage." 

(aside: actually it probably would be frickin hillarious if they actually did that for real.  Gotta get Conroy to sing it though, he does such a great job in the clip.)


@Jey:
You win.  That would be worst... worser... whatever.  ;)
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BlueBard

#16
August 14, 2009, 08:50:04 PM
Yeah, the Batman musical thing could actually be viewed as funny.  The Superman musical thing was truly, truly beyond worst.

The only thing that could be utterly horrible to the point of fanboys taking poison would be... if they made the Thor movie as an opera...
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JeyNyce

#17
August 14, 2009, 09:46:37 PM
Thor as an opera.........

If done right, it could work.....Maybe as an rock opera?
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Trelau

#18
August 15, 2009, 10:14:59 AM
Quote from: BlueBard on August 14, 2009, 08:50:04 PM
The Superman musical thing was truly, truly beyond worst.

wait...what? there was a superman musical?!? I think i just died a little

btw about the thor opera: remember the He-Man musical? i don't know why but i immediatly thought thor would look like that...

oh, and why the hell are they trying to make musical about everything?

JKCarrier

#19
August 15, 2009, 02:37:40 PM
Quote from: Trelau on August 15, 2009, 10:14:59 AM
wait...what? there was a superman musical?!? I think i just died a little

Yup. I saw the tv version, it was pretty dire:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Bird%E2%80%A6It%27s_a_Plane%E2%80%A6It%27s_Superman

catwhowalksbyhimself

#20
August 15, 2009, 03:36:50 PM
Youtube also has a version done by a high school, only this one was deliberately played for laughs.
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RTTingle

#21
August 15, 2009, 06:49:48 PM Last Edit: August 15, 2009, 07:28:11 PM by RTTingle
  I had a cassette of the Superman musical somewhere.  Damned if I can find it anymore.  My favorite thing about this musical was that the bad guy wants to destroy Superman so he can rule the world and destroy Sweden.  Why destroy Sweden?  Cause he's a 10 time Nobel Prize loser.  :P  Anyways, you can find out more about the musical here and see some shots of the cheesy TV production of the musical here.

  Actually, I think the Batman musical may not have been such a bad idea.  Really - aside from Thor --- he's a character very suited for it.  I'd imagine it along the same lines of a Phantom of the Opera musical.  Tim Burton was to have a hand in it, as well as Jim Steinman to write the songs.  You can learn more about it here... and actually hear the songs planned performed.

 Spider-Man's got a link too, here.

RTT

(Updated to add more Superman Musical info.)

Panther_Gunn

#22
August 15, 2009, 10:15:03 PM
As much as it pains me to agree with anything on this subject, if done *just* right, Thor could totally work as a classic Wagnerian-type opera.  But, then, it would be more of the mythology Thor, and not the Marvel Thor.  Not that that's a bad thing.
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docdelorean88

#23
August 16, 2009, 07:51:27 PM
Spiderman looks like it has reasonable potential. It can't be worse than the shrek musical.
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docdelorean88

#24
November 13, 2009, 04:55:43 AM
It looks like Spiderman is finally on the move again. Not too terrible news to me!
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Glitch Girl

#25
September 10, 2010, 04:22:44 PM
Costume preview is up.
Clicky here!

Personal note: And I thought the movie Green Goblin was bad.  Where's some brain bleach when you need it?
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daglob

#26
September 10, 2010, 04:57:15 PM
Hey! It looks like they have the set designer from "The Cabinet of Dr. Calagari", and the costume designer from "Madame Satan".

Spoiler

Okay, it's a realy weak joking insult to both the set designer and the costume designer. It's still what I thought whne I saw them. "Dr. Calagari" is a classic silent movie done in the German espressionist style, and "Madam Satan" is a really wierd movie about a wife trying to win back her philandering husband. The last act of MS takes place on a zeppelin during an art deco masquerade party. If Kay Johnson were a little more like Thelma Todd or Jean Harlow instead of kinda average...

Panther_Gunn

#27
September 10, 2010, 05:23:04 PM
Seeing that makes me *want* to go watch the old '70's Captain America series.  Ya know, for the obvious improvement.   :thumbdown:
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JeyNyce

#28
September 10, 2010, 06:06:20 PM
"Swiss Miss"????

Wait People get hot chocolate if they see the show??
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#29
September 10, 2010, 06:42:41 PM
Kill me now.
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