In
the forthcoming Broadway show, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” the rock
version of the Webslinger will not
be the friendly neighborhood Wall-crawler we’ve grown accustomed to in
funnybooks and on the glossy Big Screen. Quoted by Gina Salamone in the New York Daily News, U2's frontman,
Bono, explained to a British radio station that "our Peter Parker is much
more ...not Kurt Cobain, but a kind of
slacker, a more kind of shy sort of guy.” And: “We've got a new villain. It's a
girl. It's a very extraordinary role. We've taken it to a much more dizzy place
than you'd expect. We've got big tunes. We're very proud of it." Despite
having encountered “an unexpected cash-flow problem” that has halted progress
on the production, Hello Entertainment, the show’s producer, says the musical
will still begin previews in February as planned.
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