ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
"As this Spider-Man tale opens, the audience sees New York City 'on fire and in ruins' as 'a section of the Brooklyn Bridge ascends with Mary Jane bound and dangling helplessly from the bridge'." The show's money troubles mean it risks passing both the Tony deadline and the expiration of the license from Marvel Comics....
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
It will not be Jim Sturgess slinging webs on Broadway in the new comic book musical Spider-Man Turn of the Dark . Instead, director Julie Taymor ( Across the Universe ) has hired another young actor she recently cast in a film version of Shakespeare's The Tempest . Reeve Carney will play Peter Parker to Evan Rachel Wood 's Mary Jane Watson, and here's a look at the 26-year-old actor....
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The producers of the long-anticipated musical are to meet with director Taymor and other creative team members to discuss the show's now-considerable cash flow, logistical and scheduling problems....
IndyPosted (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U2-Penned musical Spider-Man, Turn off the Dark has found its lead in Reeve Carney and will open in 2010. According to CBC News: Directed by stage veteran Julie Taymor, whose work has also ventured onto cinemas, the musical's budget has been estimated at $40 million US. The Spider-Man cast also features ...
Celeb Guru (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Rockstar Reeve Carney is all set to conquer the NYC neighborhood. It is now confirmed that Reeve will be playing Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Julie Taymor's Broadway production titled Spider-Man - Turn Off the Dark. A joint celebration for all Spidey...
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
It was announced yesterday that rocker Reeve Carney will be starring as Peter Parker/Spider-man in Julie Taymor’s Broadway production of Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. Watch him talk about it below! The music was written by U2’s Bono and The Edge and the rest of the Carney band (Aiden, Jon and Zane) will even be [...]
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Reeve Carney has been selected to play the superhero Spider-Man in the the new Broadway musical, Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark. U2’s Bono and The Edge will be bringing the music and lyric to the mega-production, which will be directed by Julie Taymor. A press release sent out on Friday reads, “After an exhaustive search that included [...]
IGN (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Bono and The Edge. As an actor, Carney recently worked with Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark director Julie Taymor on her upcoming adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest which is due to hit movie theaters in 2010. Beyond that, Carney earned critical acclaim as a child actor in the film Snow Falling on Cedars -- he was nominated in the 2000 Young Artists Awards and won "Best Performance...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | yesterday
... actor/musician Reeve Carney has been officially cast as Spider-Man; Carney stars in director Julie Taymor’s The Tempest as Prince Ferdinand, and heads his own band, Carney. While people are saying the show will goon, no one is saying when — Spidey the Musical will miss is previous February start, and probably this year’s Tony Award nomination cut-off, as well.
Empire News (Free subscription) | yesterday
... voice. And he’s acted before, in Snow Falling On Cedars and, perhaps more tellingly, The Tempest, Julie Taymor’s movie version of the William Shakespeare play.Taymor, of course, is the director of the hugely ambitious Spider-Man musical, which will boast lyrics and music written by Bono and The Edge. They were kind enough to say the following about Carney: "Our ambition was...
Gothamist (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
After speculation the expensive Julie Taymor-directed Spider-Man musical might be on the ropes, it turns out there's a new lead producer. The NY Times reports that Michael Cohl, a rock promoter, "was taking command of the financially troubled project at the behest of U2’s Bono and the Edge, who together wrote the music and lyrics for the show." While he's never been a...
No Land Grab (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Gothamist The proposed Atlantic Yards project is used as an example of how not to do things. The massive project is falling further behind schedule, it's millions of dollars in the hole, and will need a miracle to meet a looming make-or-break deadline. All we need now are a string of eminent-domain lawsuits, and Julie Taymor's wildly ambitious Broadway adaptation of Spider-Man might...
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
My Spidey senses are tingling ... but not necessarily in a good way.On Friday, The New York Times announced that Toronto's own Michael Cohl had ridden to the rescue of the troubled $45 million (U.S.) supermusical Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark, which had been struggling to open on Broadway this season.With a score by U2's Bono and The Edge, and with direction by Julie Taymor of The Lion...
JoBlo (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
You know that musical Spiderman from Julie Taymor that was declared all but dead recently because of monetary problems? Well it ain't quite that dead. Yet. Variety says that with a new producer on board, meaning someone who found a new source of gullible cash cows, work has resumed AND...they found a Spidey. A complete unknown with no reputation to lose in the first place. Music industry...
Superhero Hype (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Reeve Carney, of rock band Carney, will play Peter Parker/Spider-Man in Julie Taymor's Broadway show "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark," producer Michael Cohl announced Friday. Carney has a role in Taymor's upcoming drama, The Tempest . The singer is joining a cast that includes Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson and Alan Cumming in the role of Norman Osborn/Green Goblin....
