My version of the Spiderman musical, as directed by Julie Taymor, with music by U2:
SPIDER-MAN: RATTLE & THWIP
SCENE 1
Spider-Man hangs upside-down over a city skyline comprised of gargoyle shadow puppets and people in Noh masks.
SPIDER-MAN: I'm WIIIIIDE AWAAAKE. I'm WIIIIIIDE AWAAAAAKE. I'm not SLEEPING.
Bono enters, wearing a yellow and green jumpsuit. He portrays the Fly, one of Spider-Man's all-time lamest foes.
THE FLY: A man will rise! / A man will fall! / From the sheer face of evil villainry! / Like a fly on the wall!
Spidey and the Fly fight using capoeira. Spidey dispatches the Fly quickly. Harry Osborn / The Hobgoblin enters. Spidey spins a web, ensnaring him. Mary Jane Watson enters in traditional Chinese Opera costume. Both Spidey and Harry moon over her.
HARRY OSBORN: My hands are webbed / My body bruised, she's got me with / Nothing to win, and nothing left to lose....
Gwen Stacy enters, wearing traditional African head-dress.
SPIDER-MAN: I have run / I have crawled
I have scaled these city walls with my amazing ability to cling to vertical surfaces
Theeeeese vertical surfaces / Only to be with you....
Arachne, a mythological reference that has been cutely added to this production, enters:
ARACHNE: What you don't have you don't need it now
What you don't know you can sense it somehow with your weird tingly spider-sense power....
JOSEPH CAMPBELL: I know everything! EVERYTHING! It's a beautiful day!
HARRY / HOBGOBLIN: You've got to get yourself together... Nnrgggh....now you got stuck in a giant web created by a mutated human gland and you can't get out of it!
Doc Ock enters.
DOCTOR OCTOPUS: On your knees, boy!
Spider-Man unmasks so as to protect his loved ones. Peter Parker has a reflective moment:
PETER PARKER: So J. Jonah Jameson comes up to me
His face red like a rose on a thorn bush
Like all the colours of a royal flush
And he's peeling off those dollar bills
Slapping them down
One hundred, two hundred!
And I can see those fighter planes....
Aunt May enters and offers him a bowl of tapioca.
PETER PARKER: A spider-boy tries hard to be a spider-man / His aunt takes him by his hand
If he stops to think he starts to cry / Oh why?
AUNT MAY: If you web-swing away, web-swing away, web-swing away, web-swing away.....I will follow!
Peter puts the mask back on so as to escape his pestering loved ones.
SPIDER-MAN: You got to cry without weeping
Talk without speaking
Fight evil clones of yourself without raising your voice
You know I took the radiation
From the bite of a radioactive spider
Then I wall-crawled....out of here....
HARRY OSBORN / HOBGOBLIN: THE EDGE!
MARY JANE: I say....I want.... / diamonds on a ring of gold / your origin story to remain untold / a pimped-out black Lexus / and not to be killed by some crazy lizard-looking freak....
SPIDER-MAN: ....when all I want is YOU-HOOOOOO! All I want is YOU-OOOOOH!
The Venom / Black Alien Suit Symbiote Thing enters.
VENOM / SYMBIOTE: One life / But we're not the same / We get to carry each other, carry each other!
Spider-Man fights Venom, and Hobgoblin, and Doctor Octopus, and African poverty. Gwen Stacy paints herself blue and dances around. VILLAINS: Spider-Man throws me just like a rubber ball / Oh oh oh, the Spider-Man!
He won't catch me or break my fall / Oh oh oh, the Spider-Man!
SPIDER-MAN: One man bombarded by cosmic rays
One man is Iron Fist
One man changed by a Gamma Bomb
One man betrayed with a kiss
BONO: For Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing....sing!
ALL: In the naaaaame! Of Love! What more! In the name of Love!!!!!
SPIDER-MAN: Definitely could use a mouth-hole for the singing. Note to self: Mouth-hole.
CURTAIN.
orig. post 4/17/07
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