Broadway Has Its Spider-Man: Reeve Carney To Play Peter Parker In Musical

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Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in “Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark,” producer Michael Cohl announced Friday.

The lavish musical is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. Dates will be announced. The show has had a troubled history, with work on the musical stopped last summer because of financial difficulties. New financing is expected to be in place shortly, according to its producers, and then full production on the musical, which reportedly has a budget of upward of $40 million, will begin.

Said Cohl: “Knowing the details and intricacies of this wildly ambitious project, I want to ’turn off the dark’ on all the wild speculation about the show — it’s moving forward!”

The Hilton, one of Broadway’s largest theaters, has undergone extensive renovation to accommodate “Spider-Man,” which will be directed by Julie Taymor and features a score by Bono and The Edge of U2.

“With a team that includes Bono, Edge and Glen Berger (who co-wrote the book with Taymor), there was never a question in my mind that ’Spider-Man’ would happen — it was just when,” said Taymor, the creative force behind one of Broadway’s biggest current hits, “The Lion King.”

Carney is lead of the rock band Carney, which has just released its first full-length album, “Mr. Green.” The 26-year-old performer has appeared in several films including Taymor’s upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” in which he plays Ferdinand.

Reeve along with his brother Zane date The Veronica’s sisters Jess and Lisa Origliasso.

Posted in: November 7, 2009 at 9:41 am