As  Spider-Man usurps the Broadway spotlight from singing cats and dancing witches, many other unorthodox stage shows are following in the web-slinger's footsteps. Here's a look at what may be Broadway's zaniest season ever.

Pee-Wee Herman, The Addams Family and Spider-Man have all come to see new life as stage shows, making Broadway's playbill seem more like that of Saturday morning cartoons. Just as the literary and film worlds have been completely dominated by subject matter aimed at young adults, it seems that Broadway has also succumb to lowering its standards by taking money from tweens.

Also popular with the kids is punk band Green Day whose staged musical "American Idiot" won two Tony Awards for Lighting Design and Scenic Design in its year-long run in 2010. The show was even nominated over "La Cage Aux Folles" for Best Musical. Based on their best-selling album of the same name, "American Idiot" features music from the album and other songs written by the band. Front man Billie Joe Armstrong even makes an appearance in the show as St. Jimmy, a drug-addled manifestation of the main character.

The 1992 film "Sister Act," starring Whoopi Goldberg has also found its way to the stage as a new musical. Though Goldberg herself will not be reprising her role as the sassy Vegas performer, the show will feature 17 gospel-singing nuns when it previews on March 24.

Several stand-up comedians such as Kathy Griffin, John Leguizamo, Chris Rock, and Dane Cook have all jumped on the Broadway train. "Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony," Leguizamo's "Ghetto Clown," Rock's "The Motherfu**er With the Hat," and "Fat Pig" featuring Dane Cook will all open within six months of each other. Judging by its title and Chris Rock's reputation, "The Motherfu**er In the Hat" promises to feature the most f-bombs ever heard on Broadway.

Perhaps the most outrageous (and scandalous) musical coming out this year is "The Book of Mormon" written by "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. "The Book of Mormon" is a blasphemous musical about two Mormon missionaries sent to Uganda. The show, which opens March 24 at the Eugene O'Neil Theatre, is not the first time Stone and Parker have lampooned the Church of Latter-day Saints. Their first attack on Joseph Smith and his religion was in the 1998 film "Orgasmo," which featured Parker as a Mormon missionary who becomes a porn star. The religion has also been the butt of many South Park jokes.

"It's a big musical. I think people will be surprised by how the form is very traditional even though the subject matter is not," Stone told Entertainment Weekly. "We set out to tell a good story. And then we're just offensive people."

Though the aforementioned stage plays promise to be entertaining and could potentially introduce theater to a younger audience, there is no denying that the Broadway once reserved for Neil Simon and Stephen Sondheim has lost its prestige.