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Opening in 1966, the musical "It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman" ran for only 129 performances before disappearing into that great phone booth in the sky. Obviously it wasn't going to be giving "Cats" or "A Chorus Line" a run for their money but, to be honest about it, Superman wasn't really the most promising subject material for an on-stage musical.

On CD, the music for the production shows where most of the promise went. Especially in the Overture, which straddles the line between the basic jazzy and the attentively heroic. It makes for good music for changing into one's super-costume, as does the Entr'acte.

(The CD, also includes bonus tracks of songs which composers Charles Strouse and Lee Adams wanted for the play but which were subsequently dropped. One of them, "Dot Dot Dot", is worth listening to if only to imagine what Cassidy's voice and character persona could've done with it.)

Other pieces worth listening to include a reprise of "It's Superman" where most of the company hold forth on the subject of everyone's favourite Kryptonian, as well as the number "You've Got Possibilities" which bears mention if only for the fact that, out of all the numbers in the production, it achieved that Holiest Of Holies: eventually being used in a television commercial! And for a quick and undeniably unique lesson in Nobel Prize winners, it'd be difficult to top Michael O'Sullivan's rendition of "Revenge".

Admittedly the overall effect will be of severe interest for those with one foot firmly strolling down old school Broadway. And it won't make people forget the soundtracks of John Williams. But the music deserves to rise above the level of a curiosity and, as part of the overall Superman legend, cannot be entirely ignored.

Tracks:

1 Overture - Patricia Marand

2 Doing Good - Bob Holiday

3 We Need Him - Patricia Marand

4 It's Superman - Patricia Marand

5 We Don't Matter At All - Patricia Marand

6 Revenge - Michael O'Sullivan

7 The Woman for the Man - Patricia Marand

8 You've Got Possibilities - Linda Lavin

9 What I've Always Wanted - Patricia Marand

10 It's Super Nice - It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman Ensemble

11 Entr'acte - It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman Orchestra

12 So Long, Big Guy - Jack Cassidy

13 The Strongest Man in the World - Bob Holiday

14 Ooh, Do You Love You! - Linda Lavin

15 You've Got What I Need - Michael O'Sullivan

16 It's Superman (Reprise) - Patricia Marand

17 I'm Not Finished Yet - Patricia Marand

18 Pow! Bam! Zonk! - Murphy James

19 Finale - It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman Ensemble

BONUS TRACKS

20 Dot, Dot, Dot (Demo) - Lee Adams

21 A Woman Alone (Demo) - Charles Strouse

22 You've Got Possibilities (Demo) - Charles Strouse

23 Did You See That (Demo) - Lee Adams                    

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