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Music industry vet Michael Cohl has joined megabudget tuner "Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark" as the new lead producer and thesp Reeve Carney has been cast as Peter Parker in the fiscally challenged show, which producers have confirmed is still expected to happen.They didn't, however, peg an exact date for the musical's bow, saying only it will open in 2010 at Broadway's Hilton Theater.

In a statement that came out of a much buzzed-about meeting of producers and creatives on Friday, the show's backers said they expect to have full financing for the hugely ambitious endeavor in place in the near future, at which point the musical will resume full production.