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Rating: - I Like Superman, but.....
...I am a little hard-pressed, to enthusiastically recommend this soundtrack of the original Broadway Cast of "It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman". Not that any of the performers are at fault, they've all got good voices, and are at least competent or better. But most of the songs (written and composed by the same men who brought us "Bye Bye Birdie"), are almost completely unmemorable. The only one to have ANY kind of limited life outside of the show was "You've Got Possibilities", (although I DID like Lois Lane's love ballad "It's Superman" a little, I found the Melody appealing. But that was the only one of Lois' Songs I liked). And what's with all this Max Mencken stuff? I like Jack Cassidy as a performer very much, but He dominates the soundtrack and the plot of the play almost to the point where You get the feeling Max Mencken is the MAIN CHARACTER, NOT SUPERMAN!!! I never heard of any Max Mencken in the "Superman" Comics. There is no Jimmy Olsen in this play, no Lex Luthor, Perry White BARELY appears in the show. The villains are rather ridiculously wimpy and ineffectual (Dr. Sedgwick, etc.). I think I can see why this show didn't "make it" in the annals of Broadway Musicals. I'm not saying "definitely DON'T buy it", I'm just saying don't get your hopes too high on this product if You are a BIG Superman fan. (Jerry Seinfeld, are You listening?).

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