The long-suffering Julie Taymor-and-U2 Spider-Man musical, Turn Off The Dark, finally got a premiere date not too long ago, but even with tickets already on sale, you’d be forgiven for thinking that it didn’t actually exist beyond blog reports and the haughty dismissals of Evan Rachel Wood. But look! Not only does the musical appear to be moving forward, its composers in U2 have offered concrete proof that they actually really did write a musical—about Spider-Man!—by introducing the brand-new song “Boy Falls From The Sky” during a Sunday concert in Portugal. You can check it out below.
As you can see (with your ears, we mean), its connection to Spider-Man is somewhat abstract: It’s not like we were expecting Bono to sing, “I’m out here slinging a web / Also I am considering how difficult it is / To balance my great power with responsibility / Yeah yeah yeah” or anything, but there’s very little here to suggest that this song has anything to do with Peter Parker or his masked alter ego. But obviously, that means they can keep playing it beyond Turn Off The Dark, which we’re still not entirely convinced will happen. [NYT]