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...when mortal men tried to repackage Superman and sell it as camp, no one bought it. It's a Bird ... It's a Plane ... It's Superman flopped that year on Broadway, and it may have been because this poor hero had been too packaged already. But maybe the mentality just wasn't quite distant enough yet: the original Superman was a passion play of technological trash for people who had their fantasies in black-and-white. The perspective is probably more appropriate now. The corruption of the seventies needs to convince itself that it's at least delicious...
David Newman and Robert Benton did this in the original script, and all the trimmings were fine -- good jokes, nice lyrics, lively and interesting score. But they intended Superman to be inept and endearing, so they wrote it in. What this Quincy House production does, no less endearingly, is extend the clumsiness to the whole presentation. Needless as this amateur touch is, it doesn't really detract from an evening that had little more than laugh potential anyway. Harvard audiences seem sympathetic to plays that have some rollicking enthusiasm, and no one minded much that the technical, orchestral, and choreographic...
...SUPERMAN, then, is the only character who is supposed to be a klutz, and he doesn't shine as much as he could with so much competition from the rest of the crew. But Raphael Cohen, in his dual role as the Man and particularly as mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent, is still a strong actor. Obviously, the two poses require completely opposite attitudes. Superman is the focal point of everybody's existence: Lois adores him, the populace sing his praises daily, while a jealous scientist and a columnist for The Daily Planet hate him and drive the plot with...
...BIRD, IT'S A PLANE, IT'S SUPERMAN. By the authors of Bye, Bye, Birdie, they claim. All costume changes done in phone booth. All costume changes done in phone booth. Opens 8:30 Friday at Quincy House...
...relies on his wits and imaginative disguises" to bring the varlets to justice. Every fourth week ABC will even give the viewer science fiction cops and robbers. In Cyborg, Lee Majors will play a test pilot whose body is rebuilt after a crash to make him a superman-and a super crimefighter. Since NBC put its long-running Western Bonanza out to pasture last year, Lome Greene has taken off his spurs. Next season he will don a business suit to play the star of Griff for ABC. In keeping with next fall's guns and chuckles accent, Griff...