Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2)
Josh Widdicombe's Archive of Pop Culture
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Spiderman: Turn off the Dark - Broadway's Biggest Musical Failure? (Part 2)
In this episode we discuss the genesis story of the band whose two members soundtrack the doomed musical - rock legends U2.
And we start to get a sense of the various egos orbiting the broadway show as it starts to take shape. You could say the warning signs were there from the start....
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