Think Again Spiderman Turn Off the Dark

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a rock musical with music and lyrics past U2'south Bono and The Edge and a volume past Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.

The musical is based on the Spider-Human comics created past Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics.

It tells the origin story of Spider-Human being, equally well as his romance with Mary Jane Watson and his battles with the Dark-green Goblin. The show includes highly technical stunts, such equally actors swinging from "webs" and several aerial combat scenes.

one Synopses
- i.1 Version ane.0[edit]
- 1.two Version 2.0
two Original Broadway Cast
3 Musical Numbers
4 Gallery

Synopses

Version 1.0[edit]

The post-obit is a synopsis of the bear witness equally it was performed in its preview period from November 28, 2010 to April 17, 2011.

Act I

As the curtain rises New York City is burning ("Splash Page"). Mary Jane Watson is suspended from the Brooklyn Span, and Spider-Homo is rushing to salvage her. He is as well belatedly and his nemsesis, the Green Goblin cuts the rope. After Mary Jane falls, the Geek Chorus (Miss Pointer, Jimmy-6, Professor Cobwell, and Grim Hunter) enters. They are in the process of "writing" a new Spider-Human story. Miss Arrow contends that Peter Parker isn't actually the first person to get a spider. She begins to tell the story of Arachne ("Behold and Wonder"), an Aboriginal Greek weaver who challenged Athena, the Goddess of Weaving, to a duel; Arachne won and was punished for her hubris by Athena, who destroyed her piece of work. Arachne was and so distraught, she hanged herself. Athena felt guilty, so she gave her eternal life in the form of the world'southward first spider.

The scene dissolves into Queens Loftier School where Peter Parker is presenting an oral report on Arachne. His questions prompt the teacher to assign the entire course a ten-page report, which they must work on over the weekend. As revenge, Flash Thompson and the other bullies at the schoolhouse brainstorm to physically and verbally abuse Peter ("Bullying by Numbers"). He walks dwelling house beaten and alone, until he runs into his adjacent door neighbor, trounce, and Flash's girlfriend, Mary Jane. They each go into their separate homes and have arguments with their guardians: Mary Jane'due south father tries to shell her, while Peter feels his Uncle Ben is trying to replace his dead male parent. Both teenagers long for escape ("No More than").

The next day, the class goes on a field trip to the laboratory of Dr. Norman Osborn, who is performing genetic experiments which involve splicing different gene traits from different animals together. He explains the need to speed up evolution ("D.I.Y. World") to make the earth a more perfect place and shows off his prime specimen: a large female person spider. Unfortunately, the spider is missing; it turns upwards moments subsequently and bites Peter. The action is interrupted again by the Geek Chorus, who argue why Peter was bitten; some believe information technology was fate, some believe he was chosen by the spider, and some believe it was a case of him merely being in the spider's path.

Back in the story, Peter is discovering his new spider powers: climbing on the ceiling, shooting webs, and using his new constitute agility and strength to give a beating back to the bullies ("Bouncing Off the Walls"). Unfortunately his new powers don't impress Mary Jane, who drives off with Flash in his new machine. Peter believes that if he tin beget a car, he'll be able to earn MJ's love; he enters an amateur wrestling contest and defeats champion Bonesaw McGraw for the $1,000 prize. On his mode home he sees Wink going into MJ's business firm; soon later someone steals his new machine, but Peter refuses to stop him. Uncle Ben sees the thief and runs after him, only to be killed by the speeding motorist. Ashamed of his recent selfishness and powerless to save his uncle, he goes to his room to grieve; Arachne sees him and shares in his pain ("Rise Above"). She gives him a costume made with the colors she described: Ruby-red for every center of the innocent that bleeds, and Blue for the sorrow of endangered citizens. Peter copes with his uncle's decease by swinging through the city breaking upward crimes as "Spider-Man". Editor of the Daily Bugle J. Jonah Jameson thinks he's a menace and offers greenbacks for whoever can manage to get pictures of him; Peter takes on the chore as Spider-Man's personal photographer.

Back at the laboratory, the U.Southward. armed forces tries to convince Osborn to speed up his experiments and create new genes to exist spliced into people, so that they tin can exist used as fighting machines in wartimes ("Pull the Trigger"). Osborn decides he will try the new experiment on himself first, with the help of his wife. Meanwhile MJ is impressed past Peter'due south new status at the Daily Bugle, and the 2 discuss their plans after high school: MJ wants to be an actress and Peter wants to exist a photographer. They flirt, while Osborn and his wife set up the factor splicer for the new experiment ("Motion picture This"). The auto goes haywire and Osborn's married woman is killed, while he is transformed into the Dark-green Goblin. To avenge his wife'south decease, Osborn begins murdering the lab techs and takes the military men hostage; Spider-Human intervenes and saves them, but Osborn knows it is Peter; afterwards all, it was his spider who bit him. The Green Goblin kidnaps MJ and tells Spider Man to meet him atop the Chrysler Building, via a piano solo ("I'll Take Manhattan"). Spider-Human being accepts, and the ii have an epic battle over the audience. The Geek Chorus interrupts, wondering how they can go Spider-Man to defeat his foe; they determine that MJ has been attached to the piano and the Green Goblin pushes it over the side. He gets defenseless in it and falls to his death, while Spider-Man saves MJ. Equally he brings her down, they kiss and she asks who he is. He responds, "I'm your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man," and swings off into the night. An paradigm of Arachne is barely visible higher up them.

Act 2

The Geek Chorus enters and informs the audience that Spider-Human being has defeated his ultimate enemy, so their story is consummate. Miss Pointer is convinced that they are not finished, considering Spider-Man's existent ultimate enemy should exist unbeatable. Then they introduce several villains to which Spider-Man disposes of: Carnage, Swarm, Kraven the Hunter, Electro, The Lizard, and Swiss Miss (whom Miss Pointer invents on the spot). Throughout this super villain parade, we also learn that Peter and MJ accept formed a relationship. With all of these villains afoot, Peter is exhausted and not paying much attention to her or anyone else in his life ("Spider-Human being Rising"). Equally Peter sleeps one night, Arachne invades his dreams. She realizes that she will no longer be alone at present that there is another spider to share her darkness ("Turn Off the Night"). She begins to weave illusions in his listen, and Peter can't tell the difference between the dream and reality when he awakes. MJ becomes completely fed up with Peter's constant lateness and condone for her afterwards he does non show upwards for her new play ("Walk Away"). That night, he decides to abandon Spider-Human being forever.

The Daily Bugle finds Peter's suit thrown in the trash and runs a headline about Spider-Homo disappearing. Arachne reads this and becomes enraged ("Recall Again"). She devises a plan to bring Spider-Man back by having all of his former enemies descend on the city at once. The Geek Chorus interrupts, citing the fact that they are all dead. Arachne'southward furies then take over the script-writing and scare the Chorus away. Peter and MJ bask a nighttime out dancing, now that Peter has no real commitments to Spider Human being and is dorsum in school doing well. All of a sudden, the power goes out; then the walls of the society come up alive with the image of the Greenish Goblin, patently alive and wreaking havoc. The villains destroy the city piece by piece, notwithstanding still Spider-Human does non announced ("Sinistereo").

Arachne is upset that Spider-Man has not taken her bait, and she visits him in another dream in which the 2 of them become married. When that does not work, she uses a headline in the Daily Bugle well-nigh l stolen pairs of shoes to weasel her fashion into the office of J. Jonah Jameson. Her furies steal the shoes for themselves and descend upon Jameson ("Deeply Furious"). Arachne convinces him to run a headline pronouncing Spider-Man a needed hero, and he does. After enjoying the coma and its intimacy, MJ and Peter come to a standstill: considering of the dreams and the added force per unit area of needing Spider-Man, Peter doesn't think he can exist skillful plenty for MJ anymore. She assures him that he is all she needs in the world ("If the Globe Should Finish"). On a path of soul-searching, Peter realizes that if MJ loves him and then he can go on Spider Man; he finds his inner hero and vanquishes the Sinister Six ("The Boy Falls From the Sky").

Arachne kidnaps Mary Jane, and the Geek Chorus appears one time again. They argue virtually who Spider-Homo'southward truthful nemesis is, the 1 he can never trounce, with some thinking it must exist MJ. But Miss Arrow clinch them that it is Arachne, since she is an expert of weaving illusion. Back in the story, we run into that Miss Arrow is right: Arachne has trapped Peter in her behemothic web. MJ is suspended in a cocoon and will die unless Peter pledges to exist with Arachne, to share her darkness forever ("Love Me or Impale Me"). They fight, and eventually Peter agrees to be with Arachne if it means saving MJ. Arachne has a sudden change of centre, realizing that there is still humanity left in the curse of the spider. She finds her own humanity and spares MJ's life. Arachne spares Peter of a life with her, as she knows he will ever only love MJ; just in realizing his humanity, she has found her own and is released of her burden of darkness. Peter watches every bit Arachne ascends into the light by the same cloth she used to take her life. With his conform at the Daily Bugle, MJ sees Peter and finally realizes his secret. She agrees to stand by him every bit sirens begin wailing and Peter swings away.

Version two.0

The following is the version currently playing on Broadway.

Act I

At Midtown Manhattan Magnet High School in Queens,New York, local teenager Peter Parker gives a volume report about Arachne, Goddess of the Weavers ("The Myth of Arachne"). As Peter gives his report, Arachne descends to the phase and tells the audience her story ("Behold and Wonder"). Thousands of years ago, Arachne was a skilled weaver who became conceited and boasted that she was greater than the goddess Athena, who challenged Arachne to a weaving contest. During the contest, Arachne created blasphemous images of the gods. Furious, Athena destroyed Arachne's work. Devastated, Arachne hung herself, merely Athena took pity on Arachne and transformed her into the world's first spider. At present Arachne is cursed to wander the universe and weave her web for all eternity.

After course ends, Peter'southward ex-best friend Flash Thompson and his gang gleefully torment the Direct A Student ("Bullying by Numbers"). Peter has a beat out on his pop next door neighbor Mary Jane Watson, but they both have unhappy lives. Mary Jane has an abusive male parent and suffers at home while Peter suffers the torment of bullies at school ("No More than"). Peter has lived with Uncle Ben and Aunt May ever since his parents Richard and Mary Parker died in a aeroplane crash when he was a babe. A few days later, Peter and classmates go on a field trip to the genetics laboratory of scientist Norman Osborn and his wife Emily, who explicate what they hope to accomplish with their genetic research ("D.I.Y. World"). While Peter takes pictures of the lab for the schoolhouse newspaper, the Osborns put the whole lab on lockdown as a dangerous genetically altered spider has escaped. While the students and scientists panic, the spider lowers itself onto Peter'southward shoulder and bites him ("Venom").

Peter presently becomes aware that he has spider-like powers every bit a result of the spider's bite along with a muscular physique, 20/twenty vision and the ability to emit web strings from his wrists. He uses his powers at schoolhouse to defeat Flash and his friends in a fistfight ("Bouncing Off the Walls"). Later on seeing Wink give Mary Jane a ride, Peter decides to buy a car to print her. He heads out and enters a wrestling tournament, where he defeats champion Bonesaw McGraw for the thou prize of $1,000. Peter returns abode only to acquire that Uncle Ben has been shot by a carjacker. Ashamed of his recent selfishness and realizing he's powerless to salvage his dying uncle, Peter has an emotional encounter with Aunt May unaware that Arachne is watching over him. Arachne encourages him to use his souvenir to defend the innocent from evil ("Rising Above"). Peter vows to avenge Uncle Ben's death by using his powers to salvage the world and notes that "With bang-up power comes peachy responsibility".

Peter then makes a costume with the colors that Arachne described to him. Crimson for every heart of the innocent that bleeds and blue for the sorrow of endangered citizens before swinging through the city on his webs, fighting criminals and saving innocent civilians equally "Spider-Man". The Daily Bugle then begins to publish articles about Spider-Man while Peter is hired by editor-in-principal J.Jonah Jameson every bit a freelance photojournilistt. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn begins thinking that Spider-Man stole his inquiry as the military organization Viper Worldwide presses him to accelerate his projection ("Pull the Trigger"). Norman contemplates the dilemma with Emily while Peter shares his first romantic moment with Mary Jane ("Motion picture This"). Norman then decides to experiment on himself, causing an electrical surge that results in Emily's adventitious expiry. Norman goes insane and mutates into the "Light-green Goblin".

Act Two

The Green Goblin comes upwards with a plan to genetically alter other humans as he did himself ("A Freak Like Me Needs Company"). Through his experiments on his old employees, he manages to create six villains: Carnage, Electro, Kraven the Hunter, Lizard, Swarm, and Swiss Miss. That dark, Mary Jane tells Peter that her love for him has grown and he admits that the feeling is mutual ("If the World Should End"). The Goblin and his new alliance of criminals – calling themselves the "Sinister Vi" – go along a binge through New York ("Sinistereo"). Spider-Human being quickly defeats the Sinister Six as the citizens of New York cheer him on ("Spider-Man!"), unaware that the Goblin has managed to escape. The Goblin arrives at the headquarters ofThe Daily Bugle and tells Jameson to print his plans of dominating the world through genetic mutation. The Goblin too tells Jameson that he gave Spider-Man life, making Jameson believe Spider-Man is in league with the Goblin and therefore giving Spider-Man an fifty-fifty worse image from the Bugle. Later that night, Arachne comes to Peter in a vision and explains that she is his guardian along with the reminder that being a hero is his destiny and he cannot escape it ("Turn Off the Night").

Maligned by the media and suffering financial woes, Peter wants to spend more time with Mary Jane subsequently missing the opening night of her play and begins because to take time off from fighting criminal offense. Upset over Peter's constant excuses and not wanting to lose the all-time friend she ever had, Mary Jane suggests they take a intermission from their relationship ("I Just Tin can't Walk Away (Say It At present)"). Hurt, Peter decides not to resume his heroic acts as Spider-Man and gives his costume to J. Jonah Jameson telling him that Spider-Man has quit. He later takes Mary Jane to a night social club and impulsively proposes to her. While at that place, the Green Goblin intercepts the metropolis's TV signals and sends a message to Spider-Man threatening his loved ones. Peter takes Mary Jane to his apartment and breaks off their human relationship for good so that his enemies won't target her. After telling Mary Jane that he will always love her, Peter takes a walk and realizes that he needs to be a hero non only for Mary Jane simply for the world ("The Boy Falls From the Sky"). Spider-Man and so recovers his costume fromThe Daily Bugle and goes after the Green Goblin.

The Dark-green Goblin sits at a piano at the superlative of the Chrysler Edifice and humorously boasts to the audience of his programme to destroy New York City ("I'll Take Manhattan"). Spider-Man arrives ready to fight, simply is soon unmasked when the Goblin reveals he knows Spider-Man's true identity. Peter attempts to revive the good-natured Norman inside the Goblin, but to no avail. Peter engages the Goblin in combat, just before he tin can stop him the Goblin reveals that he has Mary Jane, who at present dangles from the Chrysler Edifice. A flying battle over the audition takes place and when it seems all hope is lost, Spider-Man webs the Greenish Goblin to his piano. The Green Goblin, not realizing this, thrusts the piano over the side of the Chrysler Building, taking him down to his decease. After Spider-Human saves Mary Jane, she tells him not to leave and reveals that she has guessed who he is. Peter removes his mask and they comprehend. The 2 contemplate their new life together earlier sirens brainstorm wailing and Spider-Man swings away ("Finale – A New Dawn").

Original Broadway Cast

Peter Parker/Spider-Man: Reeve Carney
Mary Jane Watson: Jennifer Damiano
Arachne: T.Five. Carpio
Norman Osborn/Green Goblin: Patrick Page
J.Jonah Jameson: Michael Muhlheren
Uncle Ben/Buttons/Viper Executive: Ken Marks
Aunt May/Mrs.Gribrock/Maxie: Isabel Keating
Emily Osborn/Marbles: Laura Beth Wells
Wink Thompson/Bud: Matt Caplan
MJ's Father/Band Annoucer/Stokes/Viper Executive: Jeb Brown

Musical Numbers

Act I:

"The Myth of Arachne"†† – Peter
"Behold and Wonder"†† – Arachne, Weavers
"Bullying by Numbers"†† – Peter, Bullies, High School Students
"No More" – Peter, Mary Jane
"D.I.Y. Earth" – Norman, Emily, Peter, High Schoolhouse Students, Lab Assistants
"Venom" ††– Bullies
"Bouncing Off the Walls" – Peter, High School Students
"Rise Above" – Peter, Arachne, Citizens of New York
"Pull the Trigger" – Norman, Emily, Viper Executives, Soldiers
"Moving picture This" – Peter, Mary Jane, Norman, Emily

Act II: