"The musical has been in the works for more than six years, starting with an announcement about the show in 2004. Since then, producers have come and gone, and so have some cast members - Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming were once cast as Mary Jane and the Green Goblin.
Spider-Man may be the hero on the stage, but it is Cohl who might be considered the production's savior after he came in and financially stabilized a musical that had been dogged by money problems.
'The budget's OK,' he says. 'It's a new budget every day.'
When open, this reported $60 million show will have 41 cast members, 18 orchestra members and about 18 new songs by U2's Bono and the Edge. It will have as its main lead a singer in a rock band whose biggest acting credit so far is in Taymor's upcoming adaptation of 'The Tempest.'
Yet there seems no panic, no screaming. The cast seems loose, the engineers unruffled, the pauses between resets without tension. Someone on the technical side even has her tiny dog on her lap, its head bathed in the light of a computer screen."
I'll probably be cruelly disappointed, but I'm really looking forward to the musical. So help me God, I will get up to New York to see it.
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