Spider-Man Swings on Broadway

It seems like an unorthodox idea for a Broadway musical, but if the Great White Way can handle singing cats and a facially disfigured guy on a chandelier, why not your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man?

Visionary director Julie Taymor - who created Broadway's The Lion King - is currently casting Spider-Man: The Musical, which will pit our favorite radioactive wall-crawler against the Green Goblin, with words and music by U2's Bono and The Edge.

The last major attempt to conquer Broadway with a major comic-book character was the flop 1966 musical It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman!, but with three hit Spider-Man movies and such a talented crew, this musical just might envelop musical-lovers in its web when it opens on a date to be determined later.