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Talking Comics with Tim | Glen Berger on 'Song of Spider-Man'
Few have a better perspective on the making of the Broadway musical Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark than playwright Glen Berger. He spent six years co-writing the script and has now penned a tell-all memoir about the tumultuous experience,Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History.
As noted on the book's back cover, one scene -- in which "Green Goblin pushes a Steinway off a skyscraper only to be sent to his own death because he didn't realize he was attached to the piano by Spider-Man's webbing" -- earned him the job, but it also would ultimately lead to the dismissal of director and co-writer Julie Taymor.
We cover a great deal of ground in this interview, including a brief discussion of (as he mentions in the book) his reaction to sharing a co-writer credit for the play with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, who worked on the project for just two months. It was interesting to
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