Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark a listener and ironically not offering ambience or story enough to suggest that the musical would entertain." The concept album features alternate orchestrations and arrangements not featured in the Broadway productions and omits a number of songs including "The Myth of Arachne," "Behold and Wonder," "Bullying By Numbers," "Venom," "Spider-Man!" "I'll Take Manhattan" and the finale "A New Dawn." Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is a musical with music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge, and a book by Julie Taymor and Glen Berger, with revisions by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The musical is based on
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark new life together before sirens begin wailing and Spider-Man swings away ("Finale: A New Dawn"). Act I: Act II: According to the "New York Post", Bono began composing "Spider-Man" after Andrew Lloyd Webber joked, "I'd like to thank rock musicians for leaving me alone for 25 years – I've had the theater all to myself"; Bono and Taymor "decided to give Andrew a little competition". In August 2002, Marvel announced that Tony Adams would produce a stage musical based on the Spider-Man comics. Adams approached Bono and The Edge to be involved with the project; in turn, they enlisted Taymor