Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, A Broadway Musical

The December issue of Vogue features some amazing photos by Annie Leibovitz from the set of the upcoming Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”. Directed by Julie Taymor, it features music by Bono and The Edge. Previews at Foxwoods Theatre begin on November 28th with the show offically opening on January 11th.

In 1962, the Marvel Comics legend Stan Lee came up with a story about a teenage geek named Peter Parker who gets bitten by a radioactive spider at a science exhibit and discovers that he has acquired superhuman strength, extrasensory perception, and the ability to crawl up walls—not to mention a flair for costume design. As drawn by Steve Ditko, a cultural icon named Spider-Man was born, and since then he has swung from the comic-book page to the cineplex screen and into our dream life, fighting crime on the streets of New York and protecting mankind from villains bent on global domination. Now the world’s most famous webslinger is facing his scariest adversaries yet—New York theater critics and audiences—as Julie Taymor’s long-delayed rock musical SPIDER-MAN TURN OFF THE DARK, with songs by U2’s Bono and the Edge, finally drops in on Broadway in January.

photo by Scott Beale