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The comic book movie boom is old news. Here's the next thing: Spidey sings (Evanescence guest shot pictured, left).

Spider-Man in development as a Broadway musical.

Director is Julie Taymor, stage and film director known for another film-to-musical: the Broadwayization of The Lion King. Her filmed Beatlesian musical Across the Universe opens in September.

Music is being worked on by Bono and The Edge, of U2. As far as I know, their superhero-music experience is limited to their minor hit on the Batman Forever soundtrack.

The timeline is uncertain, but it's past the conceptualization stage, with auditions already underway.

The musical It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman ran about four months in 1966, near the halfway point between the successes of the TV show and movie relaunch. The show has been revived for special performances in New York and Los Angeles this year.

With so many odd adaptations hitting the stage, people are clearly willing to be somewhat ironic about their viewing options at what was once called the legitimate theater; the flooding of the market with comic movies has made properties like Blade accessible enough concepts for showgoers who don't know the name Marv Wolfman. Superhero musical theater, the next trend?