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Photos: SPIDER-MAN Hosts Bronx Middle School 343 Master Class
By: BWW News Desk
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On Friday, May 4th, members of the cast and creative team of SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark visited Bronx Middle School 343 to conduct a special Master Class for the students.
See below for photos from the event, which included the SPIDER-MAN cast and creatives sharing their stories, as well as a performance by Matthew James Thomas of "Rise Above," to which the children sang along.
SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark features music and lyrics by 22-time Grammy Award-winners Bono and The Edge, direction by Philip William McKinley (The Boy From Oz), original direction by Tony Award-winner Julie Taymor (The Lion King, Across The Universe, Frida), and a book co-written by Taymor, Glen Berger (Underneath The Lintel) and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa(Fantastic Four and Spider-Man comics, “Big Love”).
Photo Credit: Jacob Cohl/SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark
Isabel Keating and Phil McKinley conduct a class for Middle School 343
Rebecca Faulkenberry and Kevin Loomis
Matthew James Thomas performs for Middle School 343
Director Phil McKinley introduces the band of SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark
Children of Middle School 343 sing along to "Rise Above"
Matthew James Thomas and a student from Middle School 343
Rebecca Faulkenberry and a student from Middle School 343
Children from Middle School 343 with Cast Members of SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark
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