It’s been touted as one of the most expensive and highly anticipated Broadway musicals of some time, and now “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” – a stage musical written by U2’s Bono and The Edge – is set to make its New York City debut in November.

With a reported budget of over AUS$55.9 million, the live spectacular is being brought live under the helm of director Julie Taymor, who’s won plenty of awards for her stage production of The Lion King, as well as her work on films Titus, Frida and Across the Universe. Originally due to open in February 2010 and starring actors Evan Rachel Wood and Alan Cumming, after “cash flow problems” the production was forced to move back, with full cast run-throughs now scheduled to begin in August.

Replacements for Wood and Cumming, who were forced to leave the production with the delay, are yet to be revealed.

Now actor/musician Reeve Carney, who’s playing the role of Peter Parker, has been Tweeting about the show. “I can’t wait for the world to see this thing,” he wrote on the weekend. “It’s finally happening.”

In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Edge described “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” as an ambitious but satisfying project, one which covers all sorts of genres. “It touches on opera, it touches on rock & roll,” he said. “There are some real character-driven songs as well, very unusual song types for us. It is much more like opera than a straight musical. We’re actually not calling it a musical for that reason because we don’t want to put people off.”