I know. Shocking.
When Broadway announced plans for a Spiderman musical, I’m sure the first thing that went through everyone’s heads wasn’t a rational thought. It was a need. A need to book it to their nearest ticket retailers and milk them until they had nothing more to give. But eventually, that feeling must’ve been supplanted by a realization that a musical based off one of the most popular comic book franchises in the world probably isn’t going to be….uh, that good.
And then they brought in U2. You know, for polishing. Because musicals can’t have music that’s done tastefully, in the style of jazz – they need free-flowing rock in the style of the Batman Forever soundtrack.
You might think that the whole thing is a clusterfuck, and you’d be beyond correct. Apparently the show opened in previews to a completely disastrous performance, complete with hard-to-follow script, cacophonous music, wire problems, special effects that weren’t quite in place, and complete with an-over 60 million dollar price tag, the show would have to run for years to make a profit.
Oh, and it can’t tour, because the special effects would cost too much to transport. They really thought this through. The man who conceived of the musical was clearly an old-timey villain trying to rob decent Broadway producers of their money.
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