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Broadway finds its 'Spider-Man'

NEW YORK - Broadway has found its Spider-Man in rock singer Reeve Carney.

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

The lavish musical will be directed by Julie Taymor and features a score by Bono and The Edge of U2. It is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. 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.

The cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, Parker's girl friend, and Alan Cumming in the role of Norman Osborn, also known as the villainous Green Goblin.

Today's birthdays

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