A "Green Goblin" in Alan Cumming's Future?

Well, here comes SPIDER-MAN to Broadway and look who may be creating the role of 'Green Goblin' for the stage? It looks like The New York Post's Michael Reidel reported in his column today that Tony Award winner Alan Cumming is being considered for the role of the SPIDER-MAN Villian, 'Green Goblin' in the upcoming SPIDER-MAN musical being written by Julie Taymor of "Lion King" fame.

Alan has worked with Taymor before. He starred in Titus, her 1999 adaptation of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus. He is in negotiations to play the Goblin, but there has been no official casting statements as of yet.

Julie will not only be writing the show along with Glen Berger, but will be directing Spider-Man as well. She is working with 22-time Grammy® Award-winning Bono and The Edge creating new music and lyrics.

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Taymor, Bono, The Edge as well as the entire team who are bringing the famed comic hero to the Broadway stage, gave a sneak peek at The Times Center this week of Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark.

Of course, Alan Cumming isn't a stranger to playing comic book characters. He has most recently played "Nightcrawler" in the successful X-Men movie series.

Alan Cumming Stage Bio:

Alan Cumming trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. He made his West End debut in Manfred Karge's Conquest of the South Pole at the Royal Court for which he received a Most Promising Newcomer Olivier award nomination. He gained further Olivier award nominations for La Bete and Cabaret and won for Accidental Death of An Anarchist at the Royal National Theatre, where he also played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and directed Michel Tremblay's Bonjour la, Bonjour at the RNT studio. He played Hamlet on tour and at the Donmar Warehouse to great acclaim, winning the TMA award and a Shakespeare Globe nomination.

In 1998 he made his sensational Broadway debut in Cabaret and won the Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics' Circle, Theatre World, NY Press, FANY and New York Public Advocate's awards. He has since appeared on Broadway in Design For Living and The Threepenny Opera. Off-Broadway he appeared in Jean Genet's Elle (which he also adapted) and The Seagull. He returned to the British Stage in 2006 to play Max in Martin Sherman's Bent and for the National Theatre of Scotland he played Dionysus in The Bacchae, which was seen last summer in NYC as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.

For Alan's Film Credits, check out IMDB.

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