I am now listening to the audio CD of the original cast of the " IT"S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN " Strouse-Adams musical .
It occurred to me that I'd start a full thread about the musical , especially after a Wiki-look up showed me how many manifestations - and revisions - of the show there have been https://en.wikipedeia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Plane...It%27s_a_Plane...It%27s_Superman .
(MSA , should I have put this in your forum , considering that it happened during the Silver Age and no-doubt was at least mentioned in the comics' non-story material at the time ? Heh heh heh .)
Remember , the original's book's writers Benton & Newman went on to more Super-media , 3/4ths of the Reeve Super-flicks...so they actually have contributed a lot to Superman mythology !(Whether good or bad you may argue , perhaps...)
Could some aspects of the show be put in modern-day DC releases (If , perhaps , not DCU ones .) ?
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...Listening again to the disc now (which - on YT - seems to be a posting of an earlier version of the CD that I guess just repeated the songs from the original 1966 LP and did not include the non-used extra songs in demo form that the CD I once had included) I note the song " You've Got What I Need " , heard in the " Entract'e(Sp??) Music " number , the second time the melody is heard of four? times - It is heard as the first song in the overture , here , as a full-length vocal number , and then , in the reprises at the very end , as the last song...so all concerned seem to have seen it as " the big plug tune "from the show , not " You've Got Possibilities " , cited as the closest thing to " a hit " from the show , or 'It's Superman " , which received some pop-oriented recordings at the time of the original production ! You never know...
The full version of " YGWIN " is now on...The " Mickey Mouse " reference makes me think of " You're The Top "...(and provides an additional?? Superman-MM link if anyone needs one ??? Well , in a " Six Degrees " game...)
...The first-billed actor in the original Broadway version was Jack Cassidy (David/Shaun's da...) , who played sleazy gossip columnist Max Mencken ~ Interesting initials if you think of the derivation of HAL's name from " 2001: A Space Odyssey " and reverse it !