Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark, book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, Roberto The music is fine, though not particularly memorable, and the romantic leads, Reeve Carney as Peter Parker and Jennifer Damiano as Mary Jane, are excellent singers. But it's the action, the flying, the combat, the effects that give the audience what it came for. And it succeeds in spades.
Patrick Page is a good Green Goblin villain, if a bit too sweet and gentle for me, but you'll never forget the final battle swinging over your head. All the ballads, necessary to break up the action, could use trimming -- there were sleepy kids in the audience at the end of the two-and-three-quarters hours show, but they, too, seemed to love it.
Directors Julie Taymor and Philip Wm. McKinley, with choreography (aerial and Earthbound) by Daniel Ezralow and Chase Brock, have given us masterful, exciting, sometimes thrilling, unforgettable entertainment.
Aguirre-Sacasa; music and lyrics by Bono and The Edge; is a great entertainment with spectacular, absolutely brilliant design (set by George Tspin, lighting by Donald Holder, costumes by Eiko Ishioka, projections by Kyle Cooper, masks by Julie Taymor, makeup by Judy Chin). The show takes theatrical effects to a new dimension. It's shiny, it sparkles, you are in a sci-fi video game.
