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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.”

Rosie O’Donnell is attached to star in a revival of the 1937 Rodgers and Hart musical Babes in Arms.

Variety reports the new version of the Depression-era show will a feature a veteran theater person (O’Donnell) helping a group of kids put on a show in order to keep them from being sent to a workfarm.

Rosie last performed on Broadway in 2005’s Fiddler on the Roof.

ARE YOU EXCITED to see Rosie back on Broadway???

Billy Elliot: The Musical stars Trent Kowalik, Kiril Kulish and David Alvarez hold up their Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (the first time three actors were nominated for one role) at the 2009 Tony Awards held at NYC’s Radio City Music Hall on Sunday (June 7).

How adorkable were their acceptance speeches?!

Billy Elliot won the most statues of the night, picking up 10 Tonys including the coveted Best Musical. The all-American Hair won as Best Musical Revival.

Thanks for host Neil Patrick Harris, 7.5 million viewers tuned in, up about 20% from last year and the show’s highest ratings in three years. Watch NPH’s closing musical number below!

I was able to go to the rehearsals earlier that morning and NPH jokingly sang towards the end of the closing song, “Don’t Twitter all my jokes.” Ha!

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Grey’s Anatomy star Chandra Wilson will join the Broadway cast of Chicago this summer in the role of Matron “Mama” Morton.

The 39-year-old actress, who plays Dr. Miranda Bailey on the hit ABC medical drama, will perform during a four-week limited engagement, Monday, June 8 through Sunday, July 5.

Chandra also has appeared in the Broadway productions of Avenue Q and On the Town.

You can pick up tickets at ChicagoTheMusical.com.

Jennifer Lopez might be putting together a movie version of the Broaday musical In The Heights, reports Page Six.

The 39-year-old tripe threat first saw the hit show back in July, saw it twice last week and accompanied the producer, Meryl Poster, to dinner Friday evening at Nobu 57.

Jennifer is said to be interested in adapting the Tony-award-winning show onto the silver screen. (Poster also produced the movie version of Chicago).

A rep for Jennifer said, “She loves the play but is not Broadway bound.” But a movie version of In The Heights is not out of the question and would be a grrrrrrreat idea. Get on it, Jennifer. Start casting now!

Pictured here: Jennifer and husband Marc Anthony before Marc’s Saturday night sold-out concert at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Connecticut.

Sienna Miller will star in the Broadway play After Miss Julie starting in September at NYC’s Roundabout Theatre, reports UK’s Daily Mail.

The 27-year-old British actress will portray the sexually provocative Miss Julie, one of three characters in the show. Sienna’s character is the daughter of a Yorkshire landowner who creates havoc when she visits below-stairs.

Who’s ready to see daily pictures of Sienna arriving and leaving NYC theaters?!

Pictured below: Sienna leaving her house, clutching a copy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude.”

Here are some preview pics of West Side Story’s Broadway revival, which opens in February 2009.

The cast features former Urban Cowboy Matt Cavenaugh (main pic, right) as Tony, newcomer Josefina Scaglione as Maria, Karen Olivo (In The Heights) as Anita, Cody Green (maic pic, left) as Riff and George Akram as Bernardo.

You may remember Cody winning the Bravo reality series, Step It Up and Dance. He’s also a featured dancer in Brad Pitt’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (in theaters today, Christmas Day). He also performed with Rihanna on CBS’s Fashion Rocks.

For more info, visit the show’s official site at BroadwayWestSideStory.com.

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