Sooooo, my big find of this week is "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!" A Charles Strouse/Lee Adams musical from 1966. It starred Bob Holiday as Superman/Clark Kent, Jack Cassidy as the Villian, and co-starred Linda Lavin as Cassidy's secretary. Despite some pretty gloomy reviews, I love a few of the songs...like Possibilities, sung by Ms. Lavin, which we'll hear on Sunday. More from this musical in subsequent weeks!
There's also "And the World Goes 'Round," which was a musical review/tribute to the songs of Kander and Ebb. Two songs in particular...Arthur in the Afternoon, which is from The Act with Ms. Liza and Colored Lights, from The Rink. I'm going to have to dig out these two musicals again, but "World" does an excellent job, using Karen Ziemba and Karen Mason in superior renditions.
If we have time, we'll end with Ms. Stritch...and hear an encore performance of that hilarious nugget, Civilization. Did you know Louis Prima did a rendition of this? Now to FIND IT!!!
It's Today (Angela Lansbury, Mame)
I'm Flying! (Mary Martin, Peter Pan)
The Most Happy Fella (Robert Weede, The Most Happy Fella)
Nothing (Priscilla Lopez, A Chorus Line)
Invisible (Patti Lupone, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
She Loves Me (Daniel Massey, She Loves Me)
Possibilities (Linda Lavin, It's a Bird... It's a Plane...It's Superman!)
Easy to Say (Jessica-Snow Wilson, Zombie Prom)
Colored Lights (Karen Mason, And the World Goes Round/The Rink)
Get Me To the Church On Time (Stanley Holloway, My Fair Lady)
A Certain Girl (Robert Goulet, David Wayne, Michael Rupert, The Happy Time)
Arthur in the Afternoon (Karen Ziemba, And the World Goes Round/The Act)
Civilization (Elaine Stritch, Angel in the Wings)
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