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Spider-Man Live!
Spider-Man Live! - A Stunt Spectacular was the first full-length, live-action stage show based on the Marvel comic book character, Spider-Man, to appear in the United States. Written and directed by Kevin Shinick and produced by Ultimate Shows & Entertainment and Marvel Enterprises, Inc, the show combined state of the art flying illusions, acrobatic and trapeze stunts, pyrotechnics and multimedia special effects into a theatrical production that embarked on a 40 city U.S. tour from 2002 - 2003. Plot The show portrays Spider-Man's history from the day that he gets bitten by the radioactive spider and throughout his high school years and relationship with Mary Jane Watson. By the end he has to save her from the Green Goblin. Cast * Spider-Man - Colin Follenweider, Aaron Vexler, Brian Hite, Jon Bookout * Peter Parker - Colin Follenweider * Green Goblin - Gary Martin, Ottavio Gesmundo * Harry Osborn - Gary Martin * Mary Jane Watson - Julie Leedes * J. Jonah Jameson - David Hutso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Enterprises
Marvel Entertainment, LLC (formerly Marvel Entertainment, Inc. and Marvel Enterprises, Inc.) was an American entertainment company founded in June 1998 and based in New York City, formed by the merger of Marvel Entertainment Group and Toy Biz. The company was a wholly owned subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company from December 31, 2009 until its dissolution on March 29, 2023, and was mainly known for consumer products, licensing, and comic books by Marvel Comics, as well as its early forays into List of films based on Marvel Comics publications, films and List of television series based on Marvel Comics publications, television series, including those within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). In 2009, the Walt Disney Company acquired Marvel Entertainment for ; it had been a limited liability company (LLC) since then. For financial reporting purposes, Marvel was primarily reported as part of the Disney Consumer Products segment ever since Marvel Studios' reorganization from Marve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Osborn
Harold Theopolis "Harry" Osborn is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Spider-Man. Created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, the character first appeared in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #31 (December 1965). Harry is the best friend of Peter Parker (Spider-Man's alter ego) and Flash Thompson, one of the ex-boyfriends of Mary Jane Watson, the son of Norman Osborn, the husband of Liz Allan and the father of Normie Osborn and Stanley Osborn. He is the second character to assume the Green Goblin alias while one of his clones was amongst the many users of the Iron Patriot armor as the superhero American Son. An artificial intelligence (A.I.) copy, known as the A.I. Harry Osborn, is also the creator of the clones Gabriel and Sarah who are both later revealed to be operating as his demonic revenant Kindred (Marvel Comics), Kindred under the Harry A.I.'s command. The character has appeared in many adaptations of ''Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider-Man's Wedding (live Performance)
Spider-Man's wedding at Shea Stadium in 1987 was a publicity stunt and live performance adaptation of the comic book storyline " The Wedding!" produced by Marvel Comics. The event was meant to advertise the special issue of ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' comic book, which went on sale the next Tuesday and took place at home plate in front of more than 45,000 fans just before the New York Mets played the Pittsburgh Pirates. Production Mary Jane Watson's dress was designed by Willi Smith and was his last project before his death. Event The show follows the comic book story and has Stan Lee officiating it. Reception Andy L. Kubai of '' Looper'' stated that he originally believed that Marvel held the ceremony at Shea Stadium because they couldn't afford something larger like Yankee Stadium but believed it made more sense after he learned that the character Peter Parker is a Mets fan. Gary Smith of ''Comic Book Resources'' stated that he believed that the wedding at Shea Stadium was Marve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Turn Off The Dark
To turn is to rotate, either continuously like a wheel turns on its axle, or in a finite motion changing an object's orientation. Turn may also refer to: Sports and games * Turn (game), a segment of a game * Turn (poker), the fourth of five community cards * Turn (dance and gymnastics), rotation of the body * Turn (swimming), reversing direction at the end of a pool * Turn (professional wrestling), a transition between face and heel * Turn, a quality of spin bowling in cricket Science and technology * Turn (knot), a component of a knot * Turning, shaping wood or metal using a lathe * Turn (biochemistry), an element of secondary structure in proteins * Turn (unit), a unit of angle * Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN), a computer network protocol * A loop of wire in an electromagnetic coil Entertainment Film and television * ''Turn'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''The Turn'' (film), a 2012 short film * '' Turn: Washington's Spies'', a 2014 television series on AMC, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marvel Universe Live!
''Marvel Universe Live!'', stylized as ''Marvel Universe LIVE!'', is a touring live action arena show featuring Marvel Comics characters by Feld Entertainment. So far there have been two shows under the banner, the original and "Age of Heroes". Marvel's previous licensed theatrical show, '' Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark'', a Broadway musical, was plagued by several injuries. The movie licenses currently do not restrict the licensed Marvel characters' appearances in a theatrical presentation such as an arena show. History In March 2013, Feld Entertainment agreed with Marvel Entertainment to produce a Marvel Character-based live arena show. For nearly two years, development and engineering had been underway for the show. In September 2013, regional casting calls began in Los Angeles with another set held in Las Vegas, New York, and in Orlando in October. In October 2013, at New York Comic Con, Marvel and Feld revealed that the arena show would be ''Marvel Universe LIVE!'' In Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Moran (gymnast)
Michael Moran (born June 27, 1976) is a retired American artistic gymnast. He was a member of the United States men's national artistic gymnastics team and won a silver medal at the 1999 Pan American Games. He competed collegiately for the Temple Owls. Early life and education Moran was born on June 27, 1976, in Hartford, Connecticut. He grew up in Windsor, Connecticut and started gymnastics at 5 years old. He trained under former Olympic gold medalist Tim Daggett at Tim Daggett's Gold Medal Gymnastics in Agawam, Massachusetts. He attended Windsor High School and graduated before a doing a post-graduate year at Loomis Chaffee School in 1995. He enrolled at Temple University to pursue gymnastics. Gymnastics career In 1995, Moran placed first in the all-around at the First Summer Olympic Festival in Rio de Janeiro. He was a member of the Temple Owls men's gymnastics team from 1996 to 2000. Multiple surgeries resulted in Moran missing large portions of his early career. Under Tem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aunt May
Maybelle "May" Parker-Jameson (née Reilly), commonly known as Aunt May, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Spider-Man. Making her first full appearance in ''Amazing Fantasy'' #15 (August 1962), the character was created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, playing an influential role in the Spider-Man comic books. May is the widow of Ben Parker and the paternal aunt by marriage of Peter Parker, who leads a secret life as Spider-Man. She is nurturing and supportive of Peter as a mother figure, although throughout most of Spider-Man's history, she has not known of his secret life and considered Spider-Man frightening. In modern renditions, May has been known to support the hero and in rare cases is aware that he is her nephew or at least suspecting his identity as Peter. Later in life, she marries J. Jonah "Jay" Jameson Sr., the estranged father of Peter's boss and Spider-Man's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jane Watson
Mary Jane "MJ" Watson is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, making her first appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #25 (June 1965), and subsequently designed by John Romita Sr. in #42 (November 1966). Since then, she has gone on to become Spider-Man's main love interest and later his wife (as Mary Jane "MJ" Watson-Parker) before their marriage was sold to Mephisto (Marvel Comics), Mephisto; Mary Jane has also served as a supporting character to Iron Man and Venom (character), Venom. Although she made a brief first appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #25 with a plant obscuring her face, as part of a then-long-running recurring gag about Aunt May attempting to set Peter up with her friend's "nice girl" niece, Mary Jane's first official face reveal was a cameo appearance in ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #42. Designed and drawn by John Romita Sr., her entrance is regarded as one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Goblin
The Green Goblin is the alias of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, the first and best-known incarnation of the Green Goblin is Norman Osborn, who is regarded as one of the superhero Spider-Man's three archenemy, archenemies, alongside Doctor Octopus and Venom (character), Venom. Originally a manifestation of chemically induced insanity, others would later take on the persona, including Norman's son Harry Osborn. The Green Goblin is depicted as a criminal mastermind who uses an arsenal of Halloween-themed equipment, including grenade-like Pumpkin Bombs, razor-sharp bat-shaped blades, and a flying Goblin Glider, to terrorize New York City. Comics journalist and historian Mike Conroy (writer), Mike Conroy writes of the character: "Of all the costumed villains who've plagued Spider-Man over the years, the most flat-out unhinged and terrifying of them all is the Green Goblin." The Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playbill
''Playbill'' is an American monthly magazine for Audience, theatergoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most copies of ''Playbill'' are printed for particular productions and distributed at the door as the show's Programme (booklet), program. ''Playbill'' was first printed in 1884 for a single theater on 21st Street in New York City. The magazine is now used at nearly every Broadway theatre as well as many Off-Broadway productions. Outside New York City, ''Playbill'' is used at theaters throughout the United States. its Magazine circulation, circulation was 4,073,680. History What is known today as ''Playbill'' started in 1884, when Frank Vance Strauss founded the New York Theatre Program Corporation specializing in printing theater programs. Strauss reimagined the concept of a theater program, making advertisements a standard feature and thus transforming what was then a leaflet into a fully designed magazine. The new format proved popu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |