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Opening Doors Theatre Company will present a concert version of It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman!, the second production in its "Closing Notice" Concert Series, March 11-13 in Manhattan. All three 7 PM performances will be held at The Duplex, 61 Christopher Street.
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman! is produced by Holli Leggett in a unique concert style — the songs will be linked with "liner notes"-like narration and parts of the original book.
With songs by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams, and a book by David Newman and Robert Benton, It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's Superman! was produced in 1966 starring Bob Holliday, Linda Lavin and Jack Cassidy.
"The story drops the Man of Steel into a 1960s Metropolis and finds the city may not really need a hero anymore," according to Opening Doors. "It features characters familiar to Superman fans: Clark Kent, Lois Lane, Perry White, etc."
The show failed to find an audience in the age when a satiric "Batman" was already appearing on television. It ran 126 performances and spawned a cast album (and a cabaret hit with the tune "You've Got Possibilities"). Full story Link
I wonder if it would be better than CATS.
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__________________"His name is Kal-El, He will call himself Clark Kent, But the world will know him as Superman."
GO FORWARD!
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