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Hear U2’s Spider-Man Song “Boy Falls From The Sky”

Bono The Edge Introduce Spider-Man

Bono The Edge Introduce Spider-Man

|Bono The Edge Introduce Spider-Man

Tickets for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, the Spidey Broadway musical, go on sale tomorrow. To celebrateand promote the opening of the $50 million production, the musical's star Reeve Carney performed the U2-penned song "Boy Falls From The Sky" on Good Morning America. Bono and The Edge, who wrote all the words and music for the show, introduced the performance via video. "This is like the old man giving the keys to the new Convertible to the young kid, and knowing that he would drive it a lot faster than I would..." Bono says. Is that Bono saying that he thinks the thing might crash and burn? Because the kid did a pretty good job:

(via Vulture)

Are you sold? Get tickets to the Julie Taymor-directed musical here. Spider-Man plus music could be so much worse:

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