King Kong is about to conquer Broadway, as production on a musical version is slowly coming to fruition. The Australian company Global Creatures are hoping that their still-underdevelopment King Kong musical will be staged in American theatre as soon as 2013.

Reports quotes CEO Carmen Pavlovic as saying: "Ultimately, whether there's an out-of-town tryout somewhere or not, I just feel New York is the home for this story to be told."

Pavlovic is convinced that King Kong is "Broadway bound." The team at Global Creatures had just finished a workshop to ensure their mechanical King Kong can break a leg in Broadway. Global Creatures' next step is to refine the script and scoring (after all, it is a musical version) and then begin casting, with producers starting to scout for theatres at Broadway. It has to be big, of course, for the giant ape.

The musical version of King Kong will be directed by Daniel Kramer and written by Craig Lucas with fresh music from Grammy Award nominee Marius de Vries. This version goes back to the original time-setting of the story, that is the Depression-era, like when King Kong was first published as a novella.