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    U2’s Bono tries to spin a ‘Spider-Man’ musical

    He has a cameo in Julie Taymor’s Beatles musical “Across the Universe”. And now U2 frontman Bono is spinning away at a bigger project with theater vet Taymor: a musical version of “Spider-Man.”

    “If we pull off what we’re trying, it will be something the likes of which no one has seen or heard,” he says. “It should be a hallucinogenic experience for theatergoers. You have the visual energy she brings. The myth of the arachnid and the elasticity and plasticity of these characters — you can turn theater upside down.”

    He’s working on the music with U2 bandmate The Edge. The goal, says Bono, is to make it “very emotive. We’ve got some punk rock in there and some beautiful opera.”

    Working with Taymor is still a thrill, says the singer and activist. He calls the director, who helmed the film “Frida” and “The Lion King” musical on Broadway, “truly a cinematic and theatrical treasure. She has her own visual language.”

    Bono, who concedes that his first takes for “Universe” were “well below average,” doesn’t have any major acting aspirations. “It’s such an obvious pratfall, the rock star who wants to act, but I’ve tried every other cliche. There are some characters I feel I can inhabit. It would take something extraordinary. I wouldn’t do it just to do it.”

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