As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Evan Rachel Wood has bowed out of the financially troubled and much delayed SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark, due to an alleged 'scheduling conflict,' leaving open the role of Spider Man's love interest, Mary Jane Watson.
Variety has confirmed that Evan Rachel Wood, who had been set to star as Mary Jane Watson in the much delayed Broadway production of SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off The Dark, has bowed out of the production altogether.
A musical adaptation of 'Spider-Man' was scheduled to begin previews today, February 25.
According to U2's The Edge, SPIDER-MAN is poised for a fall 2010 opening, as has been speculated.
Today, a preview clip from the upcoming season of Theater Talk has been released in which panelists Michael Riedel, Susan Haskins, Jesse Green, Michael Musto and Patrick Pacheco discuss the viability of the upcoming Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, now expected to open on Broadway in the fall of 2010
In his morning column today, Michael Riedel writes that SPIDER-MAN: Turn Off the Dark will begin performances in the fall of 2010.
Broadway vet Alan Cumming, who is set to star as the Green Goblin in Broadway's upcoming SPIDER-MAN: Turn off the Dark, told the New York Times on Saturday that the show will indeeed experience further delays.
While there has been no official news on the SPIDER-MAN front since an announcement on November 6 that Michael Cohl had joined the show as lead producer, and that it would indeed 'open in 2010' things have been rolling along behind the scenes trying to put everything into place.
The producing team of the Broadway-bound SPIDER-MAN Turn Off The Dark met with the show's key creatives today to confirm the following.
Michael Riedel in this morning's New York Post reports that SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off the Dark looks to be swinging a more positive web after recent weeks and months of negative drama.
The New York Times is now reporting that a meeting has been scheduled for Friday with director Julie Taymor and members of the creative team and producers to discuss and determine the fate of the show.
The New York Times reports that the producers of the upcoming new mega-dollar Broadway musical 'Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark' have given their first official statement in light of the recent financial 'web-slinging' and media gossip regarding the production's status.
The New York Times has confirmed that the financially malnourished Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark is now expected to begin previews and open in the Spring of 2010 due to the weeks of production delays and financial difficulties that have plagued the multi-million dollar mega project for months.
Theatrical sources have revealed to Roger Friedman's Showbiz411.
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Sources to Roger Friedman's Showbiz411.
New York magazine caught up with Julie Taymor at the Monday, September 21st opening of the Metropolitan Opera season and the visionary director declared that SPIDERMAN, TURN OFF THE DARK is still set to swing to Broadway.
The New York Times is reporting that tickets for Spider-Man will go on sale on October 31, 2009.
This week's issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine checked in with the rep for Evan Rachel Wood, who previous rumors stated was let go as Mary Jane, along with other contracted performers from SPIDER-MAN when the show hit financial troubles.
Michael Riedel reports in his Broadway Matinee column in the The New York Post today that while 'SPIDER-MAN, Turn Off The Dark' may have hit a snag on the road to Broadway, a friendly 'superhero' is trying to 'swing' in to get things rolling again.
