NEW YORK - BROADWAY has found its Spider-Man - rock singer Reeve Carney.

Carney will portray celebrated web-slinger Peter Parker in Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark, producer Michael Cohl announced on Friday.

The lavish musical is still scheduled to open sometime in 2010 at the Hilton Theatre. Dates will be announced. The show has had a troubled history, with work on the musical stopped last summer because of financial difficulties.

New financing is expected to be in place shortly, according to its producers, and then full production on the musical, which reportedly has a budget of upward of US$40 million (S$56 million), will begin.

Said Cohl: 'Knowing the details and intricacies of this wildly ambitious project, I want to 'turn off the dark' on all the wild speculation about the show - it's moving forward!'

The Hilton, one of Broadway's largest theaters, has undergone extensive renovation to accommodate Spider-Man, which will be directed by Julie Taymor and features a score by Bono and The Edge of U2.

The cast also includes Evan Rachel Wood as Mary Jane Watson, Parker's girl friend, and Alan Cumming in the role of Norman Osborn, also known as the villainous Green Goblin. -- AP