Gene Simmons could play Green Goblin in the ‘Spider-Man’ Broadway show but he declined.
“Yes. It’s true. I was offered the role of the Green Goblin in the Broadway Spider-Man show,” the KISS bassist wrote on X, reposting Hollywood Horror Museum’s tweet about the musical. “I politely declined.”
Simmons also shared on Twitter back in 2013 that he was offered the Green Goblin role in ‘Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.’ The role was first played by Patrick Page and performed by Robert Cuccioli at the time.
Simmons didn’t say if he would take the offer but thanked the show’s producer, Michael Cohl. He wrote, “Thank you, [producer] Michael Cohl for offering me the role of the Green Goblin on the Broadway production of Spider-Man.”
Simmons is a fan of science fiction and comics and has published several science-fiction fanzines. KISS has been in comic books almost as long as they’ve made music, starting with Marvel’s ‘Howard the Duck’ in 1977.
They’ve been in comics from Image, Dark Horse, IDW, and Archie. A new series called ‘KISS’ came in 2016. Simmons said at the time, “KISS has never been just a band. I fly through the air at eight feet per second. Yes, I spit fire. And yes, I wear bat wings and dragon boots. Don’t be jealous.”
“When you think about it, superheroes are really modern-day versions of the great Greek gods of mythology: Mercury had wings and could fly. Vulcan was the god of fire,” the musician added.
“Clearly everybody wants to be a superhero, but people don’t really understand the Greek mythological nature, the depth that superheroes conceptually are,” he also previously said of his love for comics. “Even though they’re fictional and sci-fi and all that stuff, there’s a great humanism that runs rampant throughout it.”
KISS stories have been published by Marvel, Image, Dark Horse, Platinum Studios, Archie, and IDW. Unlicensed stories were also published by Revolutionary Comics and others.
