Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark 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 the Spider-Man comics created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, published by Marvel Comics, as well as the 2002 film and the Greek myth of Arachne. It tells Spider-Man's origin story, his romance with Mary Jane and his battles with the Green Goblin. The show includes highly technical stunts, such as aerial combat scenes and actors swinging from "webs".
Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark of "Bouncing Off the Walls", "A Freak Like Me Needs Company", and "Spider-Man!". Syfy was "Turn Off the Dark"'s lead media partner, offering tickets to the show as prizes and airing commercials for the production. CBS' "60 Minutes" aired a feature on the production on November 28, 2010, the production's first preview performance, in which Lesley Stahl chronicled the creation of the musical. The show's first performance, on November 28, 2010, "garnered what was most likely the most press coverage of a first preview in history." Reactions to the first preview described the musical as "visually stunning," despite technical glitches