Several stars attended the much-buzzed-about opening of “Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark” on Tuesday, the seemingly ill-fated project formerly headed by director Julie Taymor, who was ousted after technical problems and failed negotiations with the musical’s producers — including U2’s the Edge and Bono, who wrote the songs for the production.
Lukewarm reviews are starting to circulate about the show, which was fraught with lots of actor-injuries and technical glitches, and last month was described as “really, truly horrendously and unfixably bad down to its bones,” but fans at its Tuesday opening included former President Clinton, who attended the show with daughter Chelsea and a “small entourage.” The president sat to the left of Bono, while behind them sat Andrew Lloyd Webber next to the Edge.
And word has it he loved the show. “Mr. Clinton applauded after every song and laughed heartily during a scene in which the villain Green Goblin becomes irked by an elaborate voice mail system,” read a review in the New York Times.
