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Tuesday, April 17, 2007

With great broadway producing power comes great responsibility

This business of a new Spiderman musical sounds kinda... well, awesome. Per Playbill, Julie Taymor will direct a Spiderman musical with music provided by Bono and The Edge of U2. Freakin awesome!! The reading is happening mid-July, and as usual, playbill is getting its news from casting breakdowns. This one says:

Among the roles being sought to fill are the young-man-turned-hero Peter Parker/Spider-Man ("male, late teens to early 20's...[with a] great pop/rock voice") and love-interest Mary Jane ("female, late teens to early 20's...[with a] great pop/rock voice") as well as villain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin and Daily Bugle publisher J. Jonah Jameson (both call for "male, 50s.")
Green Goblin - does that mean it'll be a musical version of the Spiderman movie? But wait:
Arachne ("female, 20-35 years old, any ethnicity") is described as "a beautiful, boastful young woman turned into a spider for her hubris and lack of respect for the gods. She subsequently appears to Peter Parker and the audience as in turn a powerful spider-woman who comes from another time to inspire Peter; an otherworldly lover; a bride; a terrifying (and sexy) dark goddess of vengeance; a dance partner in a charged and violent spiders dance of death; and, finally, a lonely, fragile young woman."
An otherworldly lover, a bride, a dark goddess of vengance, but underneath it all, a vulnerable, lonely beauty? Hmm...

Dear Casting Team,
For the upcoming Spiderman musical, please consider the following talent for the role of Arachne:


Okay, the "violent spider dance of death" sounds like a risk. But music by Bono and The Edge? I'm psyched.