Theatre Register

“It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman”, 1966

Shows · Alvin Theatre, 1966

Original BroadwayNeil Simon Theatre 129 performances

The run closed July 17, 1966

Opened
March 29, 1966
Closed
July 17, 1966
Performances
129
Previews
Theatre
Neil Simon Theatre

Of the 603 productions we hold that opened in the 1960s and record a performance count, this is the 157th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.

Who was in it35 named

Michelle Barry
Lori Browne
George Bunt
Gay Edmond
Dallas Edmunds
Eugene Edwards
Tina Faye
Les Freed
Jerry Fujikawa
Haruki Fujimoto
Joseph Gentry
Michael Gentry
Bick Goss
John Grigas
Murphy James
Mara Landi
Eric Mason
Marilyne Mason
Diane Mcafee
Dick Miller
Jayme Mylroie
April Nevins
Judy Newman
Dal Richards
Juleste Salve
Bob Scherkenbach
Roy Smith
Bill Starr
Barbara Christopher

6 of these 35 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 29 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.

Creative team

Director
Harold Prince
Choreographer
Ernest Flatt

A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.

Around this production

Harold Prince directed this comic-book musical, which was ahead of its time in bringing superhero storytelling to Broadway. Jack Cassidy earned a Tony nomination for his villainous turn as Max Mencken.

Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.

What this page does not know

  • No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
  • No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
  • No recording is held for “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman” at all.
  • No show page for “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman”. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
  • Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.

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