David Newman

On stage 4 productions, 4 years

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Worked with more than once12 names

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Also credited on1 work

“It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman”

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In the literature8 passages

• Why didn’t Coleman and colyricist Ira Gasman—as well as their co–book writer David Newman—leave this material alone and work on another musical? The Life got off on the wrong foot from its first moment. Sam Harris, playing a hustler named Jojo, started waxing rhapsodic over the way that Forty-second Street used to be before Disney got its…ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
• “When we took out the music, for starters, it flew.…”—DAVID NEWMAN , who with Robert Benton wrote It’s a Bird … and then the 1978 hit movie Superman (starring Christopher Reeve)ebooks/Hadleigh, Boze/Broadway Babylon - Boze Hadleigh.txt
• Produced at a time when “Batman” was all the rage on TV and pop art and comic-book heroes were popular, Superman ’s book, by David Newman and Robert Benton, told of its hero’s being threatened by the jealous Dr. Abner Sedgwick, a ten-time Nobel Prize loser seeking revenge by attempting to destroy the world’s symbol of good, and Max Menken…ebooks/Mandelbaum, Ken/Not Since Carrie_ Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops - Ken Mandelbaum.txt
• Some of the rumors: that so many play-doctors (including Robert Benton and David Newman) were being implored to come down and patch up the book, they were bumping into one another on the Metroliner; that equal numbers of songwriters were being invited to create new songs; that Debbie had called Sir John "a hack;" and that Peter Gennaro ha…ebooks/Suskin, Steven/B001T4YWBO EBOK - Steven Suskin.txt
• youths—nor the adults—bothered with Superman. Librettists David Newman and Robert Benton came out best of all, parlaying their contact (and contract) with the Man of Steel into the 1978 motion picturetheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt
• John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman and _ Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, oo ees and Sherman Yellentheatre-pdfs/More Opening Nights on Broadway - Steven Suskin.txt

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