I'm Gretchen Ribin and this is a little happier.

A while back, a friend told me,

ah, you have to read this great book,

Song of Spider-Man,

the inside story of the most controversial music

in Broadway history by Glenn Berger.

It will change your life.

Now what a friend recommends a book so highly,

I run out and read it.

So I did.

This book tells the story of the very controversial,

much criticized and debated musical song of Spider-Man.

It was one of the most expensive,

most ambitious and most dangerous Broadway musicals

of all time.

It was also a big flop.

This book talks about how the show came together

and how despite, or perhaps because,

of the involvement of so many brilliant people,

people like Julie Teymour and Bono,

and so much money, it went terribly wrong.

The book is the memoir of Glenn Berger,

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