SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark.

SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark.] Photographic production album based on music and lyrics by Bono and the Edge of Irish rock band U2 and a book by Julie Taymor, Glen Berger, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, considered the most expensive Broadway production ever produced at a cost of $75 million. It included highly technical stunts, with 27 aerial sequences and combat scenes where actors swung from "webs" leading to many injuries during performances. The show was in preview for three years with its official opening taking place on June 14, 2011.
A pre-production scene book from its initial preview, dated August 2008 comprising 32 pages, each numbered and titled according to act and scene, and with a full-page color digital artist rendering of the stage sets and characters. 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (slightly bumped at bottom right of front cover).
Called a "Bible" in theatre language, this scene-by-scene rendering for Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark presents very early imagining for the look of the show, as initial readings took place starting in 2007. Early on the production was described as "the most technically complex show ever on Broadway, and by 2009, the show ran into debt and production was halted. Then Disney came in to buy Marvel Comics, and production resumed. Commotion behind the scenes, injuries to actors and stunt doubles (including broken wrists, feet, concussions, and one actor free-falling 21 feet into the orchestra pit), the need for rewrites, and the addition of closing songs delayed the opening six times. The show had a weekly production budget over $1 million, much more than most Broadway shows. Once opened, the show had terrible reviews but praised for its acrobatics. This book offers a glimpse into the ambitious idea phase of the pre-production. Spider-Man first appears in the book in Act I, Scene 14 titled "The Debut." (Inventory #: Spider)