'Spider-Man' musical is costing $40 million. "Spider-Man", directed by ‘The Lion King’s and movie "Across the Universe",Julie Taymor, is currently operating on a budget of $40 million and the show is expected to have a weekly running cost of $1 million.
The U2 singer and guitar ace The Edge have penned all 18 songs for a Broadway musical about the comicbook hero and will release a U2 album based on their musical adaptation of the comic books.
Songs include Bouncing off the Walls, which will accompany the first transformation of Peter Parker into Spider-Man, and Rise Above, a number written for Mary Jane, the female lead.
They have also written numbers for Arachne, the Spider-Woman villain who was a relatively minor character in the comic book series. U2 are not planning to record all the songs. Gohl,the project’s musical supervisor , said the album that the band have just completed is “entirely different”.
Bono last year described the score as “punk rock” and “beautiful opera”. He added: “If we pull off what we’re trying, it will be something the likes of which no one has seen or heard. It should be a hallucinogenic experience for theatre-goers."
“You have the visual energy she brings. The myth of the arachnid and the elasticity of these characters, you can turn theatre upside down.”
They have also written numbers for Arachne, the Spider-Woman villain who was a relatively minor character in the comic book series. U2 are not planning to record all the songs. Gohl,the project’s musical supervisor , said the album that the band have just completed is “entirely different”.
Bono last year described the score as “punk rock” and “beautiful opera”. He added: “If we pull off what we’re trying, it will be something the likes of which no one has seen or heard. It should be a hallucinogenic experience for theatre-goers."
“You have the visual energy she brings. The myth of the arachnid and the elasticity of these characters, you can turn theatre upside down.”
Bono and the Edge previously penned GoldenEye, the theme tune to the James Bond film of the same name, which was performed by Tina Turner.
source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/
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