JMS gets a shout out in the Spider-Man musical

[vakie]

http://io9.com/5701486/the-spider+man-broadway-musical-is-like-eating-a-candy+coated-black-widow?skyline=true&s=i

Osborn's scientists are named after famous Spider-Man creators: Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr., and J. Michael Straczynski.

Well that's pretty cool! All in all sounds like an interesting show, not as terrible as I initially suspected..

edit: a preview of the show on 60 minutes:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7097039n

[Jan]

That's pretty cool. 'Bout time JMS made it on Broadway. :p Wonder if the names will be heard in dialogue.

Jan

[vakie]

That's pretty cool. 'Bout time JMS made it on Broadway. :p Wonder if the names will be heard in dialogue.

I suspect they will, since that review was written by someone who saw the preview show.

The story sounds like it has some influences from jms' run as well.. with some reference to a mythological background and origin for Spider-Man.

Behind the Scenes clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUqNRIRmAVc)
Stan Lee visiting the set (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4cKTl25MvQ)

[Jan]

Just for fun, I posted the original link to JMS's Facebook fan page. Thanks, Vakie!

Jan