If you like big, brassy Broadway musicals, boy is this the season for you. Lighting up the Great White Way (or the Chicago equivalent) this fall will be “Shrek,” “Spider-Man,” the “Addams Family” and – no wait, “Spider-Man”? I’m trying to imagine a bus full of blue-haired matinee ladies leaving the theater humming songs from “Spider-Man,” and it’s not working. Are the Ramones even involved?

I must have been out of town the day the memo came out directing that every movie ever made had to be turned into a Broadway musical. “The Producers,” “Fame,” “Footloose,” “The Full Monty,” “Billy Elliot,” “Legally Blonde,” “The Lion King,” and “The Little Mermaid” are just a few of the Broadway musicals “inspired” by the movies. No doubt, at this very moment, someone is writing rousing numbers for “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Juno,” “Slumdog Millionaire,” “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Julie and Julia.” Can the all singing, all-dancing “Pirates of the Caribbean,” based on the movie that was based on the Disney theme park ride be far behind?