U2 megastars on edge over success of megamusical

CREATING a megamusical is no easy feat, even in the hands of megastars U2.

“Easier than we could ever have imagined. Harder than we ever thought,” says Bono, resting on a Times Square hotel bed near where Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark is readying for its first preview.

“I mean, easier in the sense that the music came to us effortlessly. Dreaming up the show, the scale of it, the flying sequence, the pop art opera that it is — that was all pure joy,” he adds. “What we didn’t realise was how difficult it is to stage this stuff, both technically and financially.”