Considering how wild the behind the scenes chaos was for Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark it was extremely hard stopping at just 10.
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0:00 This…is chaos
0:50 Imagination Dragons
1:36 A Freak Like Me
03:14 Turn Off the What?
4:45 I’m Too Sexy for my Brands
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8:10 Ain’t That a Kick in the Head
9:18 The Boy Falls From the Sky
10:28 Safety First
11:23 Behind the Ears
12:23 Plan X
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Hey all! The debate between whether Imagine Dragons worked on the show is one that will probably wage on until I reach the level where I can actually just interview the band. For now, take that story with a grain of salt.
I wanted to attach a link to an Associated Press profile on Imagine Dragons from 2013 where they talk about Turn Off the Dark: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rising-rock-imagine-dragons-making-moves-165157186.html
and another one from an American Songwriter interview with the producer that discovered them from 2013 as well: https://americansongwriter.com/songwriter-u-qa-alex-da-kid-discovering-imagine-dragons-crafting-tracks-rihanna-eminem-u2/
That being said, Glenn Berger believes it's a rumor and doesn't mention the band anywhere in his book. Guess we'll have to find out in a third revisiting of this show three years down the line.
Until then, I highly recommend reading the full 338 pages of turmoil in Glenn Berger's jaw-dropping book "Song of Spider-Man". Even if you don't like musicals, it's one that you're gonna have a tough time putting down: https://amzn.to/3MJrqGx
I hope you enjoyed the video!
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Where’d you find more information about Imagine Dragons writing songs for the show? I saw it mentioned in an old tumblr post years ago but a few months ago when it popped into my head again I could find literally nothing on it besides screenshots of that post. I just assumed it was fake/a rumor.
What a crazy tale!
All hail the Algorithm.
I find comfort in the knowledge that this musical was literally named by a child
"Before coming on to Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Julie Taymor didn't know that much about comic books or superheroes."
Shocking.
Why was there no-one double-checking the SINGLE ATTACHMENT POINT holding an actor above a potentially lethal fall?
2:48
“Couldn’t find a way to get the dead reporter offstage.” Weird, considering the stage floor had elevators
12:00 D@mnit, it’s that f*ckwad Ike Perlmutter
14:13 Amazing reference and bit of editing right here
The Better Call Saul clip about the dead body 😂🤣
YES!!! Always looking for more SP:TOTD content. As someone who’s well aware of the flaws, this show will literally always be my favorite musical. So happy to see more content!
I’m a simple girl, I see Patrick Page and I click
This musical was my first introduction to Spider Man and Marvel in general which I'm super grateful for. However, you can imagine my confusion years down the line when I realize the Swiss Miss is not in fact a member of the Sinister Six and it appears she was made up specifically for the show? I only thought about this like a year ago and tried to do some research, leading me to conclude this, but if anyone has any more information I would definitely like to hear it. I just think it's so funny that on top of everything else they did wrong they just straight up added a new member of the Sinister Six like it's no big deal
Respectfully, I find the video’s depiction of what happened with the show really sensationalist. The show was not dangerous to be in and it’s a disservice to the massive technological and stage management team who worked tirelessly on its safety. What happened to Chris Tierney was an unfortunate anomaly, something he said himself
Wait, no one died? I thought someone had died
Halloween safety? This is like Airplane levels of parody. 😜
ok i know about a lot of these but I WAS NOT READY FOR THE DEAD BODY GREEN GOBLIN THING I WAS NOT READY
The Glenn Berger book is so good!
day ??? of asking you to cover the raggedy ann musical!!! so fascinating (and also a lot of crazy inside knowledge, everything from unbelievable safety violations to insane drama… we've got it all!)
An interesting story that came out of this that of "The Spidey Project"; after the numerous delays and accidents, writer Justin Moran laid a challenge that he could write, produce, and mount a Spider-man musical before "Turn on The Dark" was scheduled to open a month later. Many members of the New York theater community volunteered, and by the time "TotD
was scheduled to open (they pushed the opening date again) Justin Moran opened his show, proving that good storytelling didn't need overblown budgets or dangerous stunts and special effects to work. You can find the show on his YouTube page under his name.
Love your first Spiderman video!!!
Do a finding wonderland review
It's a shame that the moment the Greek myth angle was mentioned, no one stood up and said "NO!" with great emphasis. Perhaps with a megaphone.
my first ever broadway show! i was a kid so i absolutely loved it 🤷🏻♂️
Radioactive makes so much more sense now.
I was unlucky enough to see SM:TOTD a few weeks after it opened in previews. Nothing could have prepared me for how stultifyingly bad it was except for one fact: Julie Taymor is a TERRIBLE director. I mean the worst. Everyone praised how original her take on The Lion King was. WRONG. A few years before TLK came out, I was a theatre critic in Atlanta, where I often reviewed the work of the Center for Puppetry Arts. And wouldn't you know it—everything said to be original in TLK was work I had seen years before in Atlanta. I mean like NOTHING was original. Now, back to SM:TOTD. The night I saw it, of course there was a malfunction and the show stopped for 20 minutes (was it on purpose? People thought so by that point). It still had the Geek Chorus offering commentary on the action (why???), and the second act was a struggle in search of a storyline, since Green Goblin had been defeated by the end of Act I. I mean it was like one of the worst things I've ever seen (not the worst—not in a world where Cats, Rent, Wicked, and Moulin Rouge—a one-gimmick show if ever there was one—exists). I truly felt sorry for the entire cast having to do this nonsense, but it was all the director's fault. (Remember, she's only had one hit on Broadway and a lot of flops.) And then there's the score (mostly nonexistent). Bono does NOT know how to write a musical. The music had nothing to do with the story. There was no musical reason for this show. Bono dashed off a few tunes and then abandoned the project (but a lot of the problems with the show were with the score).
Still don’t get creating your own villains when Spider-Man has a huge rouge’s gallery already.
Like I don’t know Mysterio the actual theatrical villain
First the Carrie musical get derailed by the misunderstanding of Grease into Greece.
The Spiderman gets way too focused into Greek mythology because of a writer misunderstanding an off the cuff reference. You'd think that story tellers would be better at expressing their vision than this lol
"Leaving us to wonder what they could've done with the Green Goblin's tongue…"
Me: …Little Goblin Jr.
I'm still disappointed because this all feels like a huge missed opportunity. Imagine if they started out the play with this bizarre period piece and confused audiences then it was announced that the play was starring "Mary Jane Watson" then we heard someone in the audience came running towards the stage and was escorted by security saying "MJ! It's me, Peter! I'm sorry I'm late!" Then it transitions to Peter's story.
The title's story reminds me of the "Send in the clowns" story – even though the Sondheim's explanation is much more logical and understandable…
the Hadestown prologue:
We need a big budget hollywood movie about this hahaha
reeve carney wants you to trick and treat safely
@Wait in the Wings Any chance you could do a video about Kinky Boots?
Imagine Dragons is TERRIBLE.
Imagine being that child, growing up, and learning that the embarrassingly cringy things you said as a kid were turned into the title for the one of the most disastrous Broadway shows of all time.
There are no "stunt men" on Broadway. They are actors and dancers, some with special training in aerial or fighting.
I saw Spiderman and it was hot mess. No one was injured when I attended the show and the people around me were disappointed about that. That was insane.