Modern Fabulosity was lucky enough to snag seats at the Broadway sneak peek at the Spidey musical, starring Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, and possibly this guy as Peter Parker.

According to Fab the New York City sets are a thing of beauty. Peter Parker's ballads are a lovely (a few songs were still a little too early to judge) but they're mainly a blend of both pop-rock from U2 and Broadway singing. But the big surprise was the villains. Apparently EVERYONE is involved:

Unlike Sam Raimi's Spider-Man films (which moved from the story's comic book roots toward a more naturalistic, real-world interpretation), Taymor is, unsurprisingly, going the other way — embracing the webcrawler's inherent theatricality, and placing him inside a stylized New York City populated with heroes and (multiple) supervillains.

Oh, and each baddie looks amazing:

Ishioka's costumes were breathtaking — a rogues gallery of the villains that appear onstage in the musical received audible gasps from the audience, including the Green Goblin, Lizard, Kraven, Swarm, and a new female villain created at the behest of Taymor, Swiss Miss (dressed in immaculate white dominatrix gear and multiple knives...hot!). Fans of Dr. Octopus and Sandman should know, however, that neither made an appearance in the presentation, although Taymor hinted at a special villain yet to be identified who appears in the piece.

It all sounds great, except for the idea of a dominatrix supervillain named Swiss Miss. (What's next - the vicious St. Pauli Girl?) The full report is back at Fab, but it sounds like Taymor's vision is being handled with the utmost care, along with a few Cirque du Soleil trainers who've taught the stuntman playing Spidey how to glide over the audience.

One of io9's tipsters has given us word that Jamie Campbell Bower is currently one of the actors under consideration for Peter Parker.

You may recognize him as young Anthony who sang next to Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd. The then 19-year-old Bower was the floppy-haired sailor in love with little Johanna. He's got theater experience and a voice:

True, this is still just a rumor but we love Bower. He's got the voice, and the charmingly innocent face. Plus we need someone who can dance around Evan Rachel Wood and make her look good, because I'm still not 100% convinced about her as Mary Jane.

MUSICALS:
Spidey? Star Wars Musical Experience?! Sigh. How long before this...


DESIGN:
Speaking of Star Wars... Don't buy furniture or art from Tatooine Desert Nymphs who leave poor droids to fend for themselves.



SPLICE:
Ah the good old LoLmutants.



ATLANTIS:
Didja hear?! They found Atlantis on Google Earth!!! Here are some things I found on Google Earth that are also not total BS.

And don't even get me started on Street View!!!



DISASTER:
Oh yeah. There's a doozy of a disaster this week. Thank you Street Fighter! You there, please tell them who you are, and what that means...



Until next time!!

The musical, allegedly costing $31 million, is all set to launch on February 18, 2010. Which means they have a full year to tweak the laser show and high wire flying Spidey (I'm assuming that's where the money will be spent).

Actress Evan Rachel Wood is signed on as Mary Jane and working with Across The Universe director Julie Taymor to bring this giant act to light (please get co-star Jim Sturgess for the role of Peter Parker). The score was dreamed up by U2's Bono and Edge, but we've yet to hear anything as of right now - but fingers crossed it's at least catchy.

[LA Times]