If you've been voyeuristically lapping up news and schadenfreude about Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark but don't live close enough to Broadway to see it for yourself, the internet is your salvation once again. As we speak, at least for a little while longer, the actual music from this musical is streaming via MSN in its entirety. (Be headphone-ready: that link's gonna open up a player and launch right into it like an understudy plummeting off a balcony.)
If you like what you hear, the cast recording will be available on iTunes… why, today, now that I think about it.
(One-sentence review from someone who knows nothing about music or theater: ….Yep!, that's U2 music, all right.)
If you'd rather stick to the schadenfreude, the New York Times has just published the story-behind-the-story from the point of view of Bono and the Edge. In it, the rock gods talk about shocking Julie Taymor by giving her the hook and reflect dolefully on what might have been:
“The hours and weeks and months,” Bono said with a distinct melancholy flattening his voice, in an otherwise empty private room at the Spotted Pig restaurant in the West Village, in which he is an investor. “If we thought it would take this long, there is not a chance on earth we’d have done it.”
By the time the interviewer is asking a man named the Edge whether he "plotted against" Taymor, you may begin feeling like you're in a comic book and/or opera yourself. Nonetheless, it's worth a look.
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I will listen to this point out of curiousity more than anything.
This is the best thing to come out of the whole musical so far though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR1DdMeVqTw
@Cooper: True that.
Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark Gets Parodied By…Sesame Street?!
@Cooper: Wow. Is Sesame Street even for small kids anymore? Between this and the madmen sketch, really makes me wonder.
Cooper- Sorry about that- I hadn’t clicked on your link- didn’t mean to double post on you.
Wow, Edge really has only one riff doesn’t he.
Lots and lots of members of the Broadway community work day-to-day on Sesame Street, clearly. And “Turn Off the Dark” is supposed to be VASTLY improved since they brought in Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.
@boosebaster You bite your tongue, sir. Bite it!
Sesame Street is at the cutting edge of parody these days.
I heard this musical is so bad, people actually buy tickets to see whether it’s really as bad as people say. And that made it to the Dutch news!