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Friday, 10 September 2010 11:13

Written by Sharon Eberson

"Good Morning America" had a sneak peek at the long-awaited, often-delayed "Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark," the musical that swings onto Broadway Nov. 14 with newcomer Reeve Carney (above) in the title role and songs and lyrics by Bono and The Edge. Julie "Lion King" Taymor is director and co-writer of the book, with Glen Berger.

Bono and The Edge were interviewed on "GMA" via satellite from Nice, France, while Carney and his band, which joins him for the Broadway adventure, where at New York's Hudson Theatre, singing a very U2-like song from the show. Taymor was in the "GMA" studios, showing drawings of the amazing costumes and sets.

Drawings of the set reveal hulking New York buildings and bridges that lean and hover and move, and Taymor also showed off costume renderings of the Green Goblin (rather spikey, I thought) and a villain being introduced for the show, Swiss Miss -- not a milk maid; that's Swiss as in army knives. Complex costumes and choreography are Taymor's specialty, and she said Spider-Man would take a swing or two over the audience, just to keep it real -- or real, according to the Marvel comic universe.

The most interesting comment on why anyone would want to make a Spidey musical came from Bono, who said the comic-book and movie icon is especially relevant in a post-9/11 world, as an everyday guy who becomes a hero.

"It's a real New York story," he said, sitting next to The Edge, "and we're New Yorker wannabes."

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