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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 playing in the orchestra pit!

Carney’s last show in L.A. will be at The El Rey Theatre @ 8PM on November 28 (Thanksgiving Weekend). Get your $15 tickets at Ticketmaster.com!

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 a casting call tour spanning six cities and thousands of candidates, the producers and creative team have selected Reeve Carney to play the role of Peter Parker, The Amazing Spider-Man. Carney joins previously announced cast members Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, Peter Parker’s girlfriend and Alan Cumming as Norman Osborn (aka Green Goblin).”

Mr. Carney is the lead singer of the rock band Carney. He also starred in 1999’s Snow Falling on Cedars portraying a young Ethan Hawke and plays Ferdinand in the upcoming Julie Taymor movie The Tempest.

Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark will open at the Hilton Theater next year.

Ashlee Simpson is in talks to return to the musical Chicago on Broadway, sources tell JustJared.com.

The 25-year-old actress moved back to New York City earlier this week. “She plans on being here for three months,” a source reveals. “She’s hoping to return to the stage.” (Ashlee played the femme fatale Roxie Hart in Chicago at London’s West End in 2006.)

Ashlee recently moved out of Melrose Place after producers wrapped up her storyline.

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Scarlett Johansson will make her Broadway debut alongside Liev Schreiber in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s A View From the Bridge.

The play will open Sunday (January 24) with previews starting on Monday (December 28) at the Cort Theater.

Tony Award winner Liev, 42, will portray a Brooklyn longshoreman who is obsessed with his 17-year-old niece, played by Scarlett, 24.

WILL YOU BUY TICKETS to see Scarlett and Liev on Broadway — YAY or NAY?

Daniel Radcliffe will star in the Broadway musical, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.

According to Variety, the show “chronicles the rise of a crafty window cleaner as he follows the advice of a self-help manual to connive his way up through the ranks of the World Wide Wickets Co. and get the girl in the process.”

The 20-year-old British actor made his Broadway debut in the 2008 revival of the play Equus.

ARE YOU EXCITED to see Daniel Radcliffe in a musical — YAY or NAY?

Sienna Miller and fellow British actor Jonny Lee Miller grab lunch together at Cafe Gitane in the Nolita neighborhood of New York City on Monday afternoon (August 24).

Sienna, 27, and Jonny, 36, will star in the upcoming Broadway this play After Miss Julie. Previews begin Sept. 18 and the show opens Oct. 22 at the American Airlines Theater (227 West 42nd St.). Sienna plays the sexually provocative Miss Julie, one of three characters in the show. Jonny’s character, John, is her chauffeur, while Marin Ireland will play the cook “Christine.”

P.S. Sienna wore this same dress over three years ago with Miu Miu sandals.
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Alan Cumming has just been cast as lead villain Green Goblin (aka Norman Osborn) in the Broadway production of Spider-Man, opening March 2010.

The 44-year-old British actor joins Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson. The role of Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man) has not been officially announced yet, although musician Reeve Carney is rumored to have gotten the part.

U2’s Bono and The Edge will be bringing the music and lyrics to the near $40-million production called Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark. Director Julie Taymor, who staged The Lion King, has said that Spider-Man won’t be singing and dancing in tights and the show isn’t a musical, but a “circus rock-’n'-roll drama.”

Alan’s film credits include X2: X-Men United (Nightcrawler), the Spy Kids trilogy (scientist Fegan Floop), 1999’s Titus (directed by Taymor) and the soon-to-be-released The Tempest (also directed by Taymor)

Taymor is thrilled to be working with Alan again. She says, “I obviously love him as this is my third collaboration with Alan - and finally we get to do it on stage. He has such range and such charisma as a performer that I feel confident his Green Goblin will bring many surprises that will move and entertain us.”

T.R. Knight (and his boyfriend Mark Cornelsen) comes out to support his former Grey’s Anatomy costar Chandra Wilson at her debut performance in the musical Chicago on Broadway at NYC’s Ambassador Theater earlier this month.

T.R. will next hit the stage in the upcoming production of Jason Robert Brown’s Tony-winning musical Parade this fall at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles.

“I am very fortunate to return to the theater playing Leo Frank in this incredible, acclaimed production of Parade,” T.R. said the LA Times. “After a five-year break, it feels great to be on stage again.”