So, guess who also won’t be on stage during the Spider-Man musical, Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark? Well, Evan Rachel Wood has already left, so the production is without a Mary Jane. Entertainment Weekly reports that now veteran stage and screen actor Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler from X2) has exited the production as well now because of his increasingly important role on the CBS series, The Good Wife. Cumming was to portray Norman Osborn, as well as the Green Goblin.
I remember watching the Tonys and becoming very excited when they aired just a snipped of Alan on the Goblin’s trademark glider. Alas, I guess it wasn’t meant to be.
So, without a love interest, or a lead villain, the show must go on. Or will it? I’ve heard nothing but woe about the production, mainly on the financial side, yet the show is still slated to premiere sometime this year (after originally supposed to open in February). So we’ll see. Coming from a theater background, I’ve been in productions thrown together very last second and still manage to pull it off, but I can’t imagine the sort of pressure the producers of this show are facing.
June 2nd, 2011 at 8:32 am
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