Spider-man Turn Off The Dark Tickets : Spider-man Turn Off The Was Often Described As A Rock Musical

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a rock musical with music and lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge and a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger. The musical is based on the Spider-Man comics created by Marvel Comics.

The most expensive Broadway production in history (as well as the one with the longest preview period),the show includes highly technical stunts, such as actors swinging from "webs" and several aerial combat scenes.At the first preview performance, these technical challenges caused several lengthy interruptions.

Although often described as a rock musical, the production "treads new ground" that some commentators have asserted "have effectively distanced it from its peers and caused some confusion when it comes time to describe the show." The Edge stated that he is unsure of what description to use for the production, because "It is elements of rock and roll, it's elements of circus, it's elements of opera, of musical theater.

Bono, admitting that his description is a little "pretentious," has referred to it as "pop-up, pop-art opera," noting that Julie Taymor is calling it a "rock-and-roll circus drama."A 60 Minutes CBS special stated that it is being called a "comic book rock opera circus," although in that segment Bono noted that even using "rock" to describe the music is too narrow a description, because "We've moved out of the rock and roll idiom in places into some very new territory for us, big show tunes and dance songs."

The production "is the most technically complex show ever on Broadway, with 27 aerial sequences of characters flying." The production not only features high-flying stunts, but also includes a "multitude of moving set pieces that put the audience in the middle of the action," and enough projections onto giant screens that Bono has said that it is like a three-dimensional graphic novel.Taymor told theater brokers that the production is something new: it "isn't a musical."

The musical began previews on November 28, 2010, at the Foxwoods Theatre on Broadway, with the official opening night scheduled for March 15, 2011.The creative team includes direction by Taymor, choreography by Daniel Ezralow, with scenic design by George Tsypin, costumes by Eiko Ishioka and lighting by Donald Holder.The original Broadway cast recording will be produced by Steve Lillywhite.

The original cast stars Reeve Carney in the lead role, with Jennifer Damiano as Mary Jane Watson, Patrick Page as the Green Goblin, T. V. Carpio as Arachne, Michael Mulheren as J. Jonah Jameson, Isabel Keating as Aunt May, and Ken Marks as Uncle Ben. Due to the physical demands of the role, Carney shares the role of Spider-Man with Matthew James Thomas, who will appear in two of the performances each week after the official opening.

According to the New York Post, Bono began composing Spider-Man after Andrew Lloyd Webber joked, "I would like to thank rock musicians for leaving me alone for 25 years I have had the theater all to myself"; Bono and Taymor "decided to give Andrew a little competition".

The title Turn Off the Dark came from a story Bono recalled about a child who, instead of saying turn on the light, said turn off the dark. They chose the title because, as Taymor said, "The one thing that Spider-Man is about is trying to bring a certain kind of light back into a world that is full of darkness."Taymor told Vogue magazine, shortly before previews began, "Spider-Man is a genuine American myth with a dark, primal power. ... I saw the inherent theatricality in it, and I could not resist."

The show was described as "visually stunning," despite technical glitches that resulted in several stops and starts during the performance. Producer Michael Cohl remarked that he thought it "was great for a first preview but we've a ways to go yet."

Cohl had warned the audience, at the beginning of the show, that there would be some interruptions while technical issues were ironed out, but one woman shouted out during one of the stoppages that she thought the performance was "a dress rehearsal, not a preview." One "professional observer" made the observation that the musical "was sixty per cent there". Including the interruptions, the preview ran three hours and twenty minutes.