Well I certainly never thought I would see Spiderman in musical format, but Julie Taymor has decided to make it so. We get the story from Jo Blo via The Daily Mail:
The Daily Mail recently caught up with Julie Taymor (director of ACROSS THE UNIVERSE), who spoke of her her ideal cast, for the SPIDERMAN musical that she’s trying to make.
And apparently it’s the same lead pairing that she just finished working with on ACROSS THE UNIVERSE: Jim Sturgess and Evan Rachel Wood. “There, I’ve said it. Now I have to go through a web to get them… Jim’s certainly interested, but his film career has taken off, so I have to nab him between movies. Same with Evan. They’d be my ideal pairing, though, if they’re free.”
In the interview Taymor goes on to describe the Spiderman musical as part rock and roll, part play and part circus. This sounds like a Meatloaf concert, and if that is the case – I am all for it. I will admit that at first glance this does seem strange. You are taking a hero of fan/geek culture and putting him on the stage to sing and dance for a whole different demographic.
But perhaps it is not odd at all, every tea sipping sipping theatre goer was at one time a child, children love Spiderman, people grow up – but the love never fades. Comic book heroes are mythical cultural icons and it makes sense that different forms of art will interpret our shared heroes using their own unique voice. Spiderman is bigger than Zeus.
This would be a dream cast for Sturgess, you get to be Spiderman live on stage every day. That is a tough job to beat if you love to act.
