BWW Review: Rarely Revived It's a Bird...It's a Plane...IT'S SUPERMAN THE MUSICAL
Wham! Pow! Boom! Up and away, it's Superman! Growing up in the 50s I couldn't wait for the next weekly adventure-filled installment of Supie and Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Perry White and the Daily Planet on the small television screen. It was thrilling to see a man go into a telephone booth and change from street clothes into tights - even if they were baggy - and fly off - imagine! - to save the world from crime and destruction. It didn't matter that it was pure fantasy and that he he was only a comic book hero. Superman brought lots of excitement into our young lives. In 1966, the same musical composers who wrote the successful Broadway hit Bye Bye Birdie, Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, penned It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman! The New Musical Comedy and in spite of the great reviews, it did not catch on with the public, so quickly fizzled. Now 50 years later, what a camp to look back and laugh at all the silliness and innocence of that era, for the Superman musical is loaded with clumsy, goofy, campy laughs. Now onstage in a rare revival ... It's Superman receives a terrifically entertaining production at the Grove Theatre in Upland.
OTHER PEOPLE'S WARS Opens at BATS April 17, Along with NZ International Comedy Festival
BATS presents the opening of Other People's Wars tomorrow night, the adaptation of Nicky Hagar's controversial book, presented by the same creative team of Slouching Toward Bethlehem and the same writing team behind the hit 2007 show The Hollow Men. In addition, Nucking Futs continues this week with only five shows to go. Finally, nine shows will be presented as part of the 2012 NZ International Comedy Festival. For more information, visit http://bats.co.nz/.
'Heist' Open June 11th at the Sargent
'Heist', opens Wednesday, June 11th at the Sargent Theatre ( 314 West 54th Street - between Eighth & Ninth Avenues ) where it will run through Saturday, June 28th.
Smith's 'Good Heif' World Premieres at New Georges 10/6
New Georges, the OBIE-winning downtown theater company founded in 1992, will present the world premiere of American playwright Maggie Smith's peculiar fable Good Heif, a full-length play, directed by Sarah Cameron Sunde. Good Heif will be presented in SoHo at the Ohio Theatre. Previews begin October 6, and the official Opening Night will be Monday, October 8 at 7PM. Performances will run through Saturday, October 27.
