Bono has said he agrees with a bad review of Spider Man: The Musical.
The music from the show was composed by U2 members Bono and The Edge.
In an interview with ABC (America) News’ ‘Nightline’ program, the superstar said “It might have been a little hard for some other people around here to take that, but we don’t disagree with the New York Times. That’s the sort of stuff we were saying backstage.
“The last version of ‘Turn Off The Dark’ had a lot of magic and mysterious stuff. It was beautiful actually, in so many ways. It just, it didn’t cohere.”
The play has been troubled from day one. There were numerous delays to opening night, budget problems (it is believed to be the most expensive show in the history of Broadway costing upwards of $US70million) and recently the show’s director Julie Taymor threw the towel in and quit the show.
The show hasn’t had many particularly great reviews.
The review, which originally appeared in the New York Times says of the show: “I’m not kidding. The sheer ineptitude of this show, inspired by the Spider-Man comic books, loses its shock value early. After 15 or 20 minutes, the central question you keep asking yourself is likely to change from “How can $65 million look so cheap?” to “How long before I’m out of here?””
The songs by Bono and the Edge are rarely allowed to take full, attention-capturing form. Mostly they blur into a sustained electronic twang of varying volume, increasing and decreasing in intensity, like a persistent headache. A loud ballad of existential angst has been written for Peter, who rasps dejectedly, “I’d be myself if I knew who I’d become.” That might well be the official theme song of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
It’s not the first time U2 have lent their musical talents to a comic book hero. In 1995, they wrote the song’ Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me’ to the Batman Forever soundtrack.
Have a look at a sizzle reel for the show below:
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