Stan Lee relates the story: The Uncanny X-Men got their superhero-group name because of an editorial veto. When he introduced the initial stories, he called them "The Mutants."
His boss said no.
The opinion: the fans aren't educated enough to know what "mutants" mean. So back to the literal drawing board for The Man. And the name he came up with was "The Uncanny X-Men," and the rest is decades of history.
With that in mind, this play for the stage begins, which I, your author, a true Friend Of Ol' Marvel sweated and grieved over for years, to take it to the stage. This bitter comedy of gen-x outcasts is simply entitled:
The Mutants.