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 actors have no insurance, the musical's director and producer light two Molotov cocktails and toss them, burning the theatre as they make a beeline for the exit. The May 23, 2011 episode of the satirical animated series "Mad" involved Taymor approaching the "Smallville" TV-series version of Clark Kent to cast him and the rest of the characters in "Smallville: Turn Off The Clark". At the 2011 Tony Awards, host Neil Patrick Harris tried but failed to confine himself to as many jokes about "Spider-Man" as he could complete in 30 seconds, focusing mainly on the accidents plaguing the show. In