Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

…was somewhat less auspicious, as Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was plagued with problems. U2 members Bono and the Edge wrote the music and lyrics, and the original show was directed by Julie Taymor, who had overseen the spectacularly successful Broadway production of Disney’s The Lion King. Exasperated by the…

…lyrics to the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Originally directed by Julie Taymor, the production was one of the most expensive in Broadway history, beset with costly overruns, script rewrites, and the departure of numerous members of the original cast and crew; however, it opened to a sold-out…

She next began work on Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, a Broadway musical that she signed on to direct, with Bono and the Edge of the band U2 as its composers. The production, nine years in the making, was riddled with problems, and Taymor was fired from her position in…