2010 Merchandise & Miscellaneous News Archives

Bob Holiday

February 16, 2010: Superman Returns to the Musical Stage

ComicBookResources.com has published an article on Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa's reimagining of the Superman musical "It's a bird, It's a plane, It's Superman!"

    Essentially, the entire structure of the show was thrown out and replaced with a brand-new story set in Metropolis in 1939, one year after the Man of Steel's first appearance. As Aguirre-Sacasa notes, "By making it a year after Superman's debut, we could cut into the story - enough time has passed that Lois Lane is already in love with Superman (and not interested in Clark) and Lex Luthor wants to kill Superman."

    In many ways, the setting is similar to that of the archetypal Fleischer Superman cartoons of the early 1940s. Aguirre-Sacasa also observes that setting it in this time allows him to write the Daily Planet setting in a "His Girl Friday" style (the classic 1940 Howard Hawks' romantic comedy film about a female reporter very much in the Lois Lane mold).

    Gone is Mencken, and in his place stands Superman's arch-rival, Lex Luthor, who effectively takes over all of Mencken's songs from the original musical. Aguirre-Sacasa described the set-up as: "A year after Superman's arrival, Metropolis's mayor has named him 'Citizen of the Century,' snubbing Luthor, who decides enough is enough, time to kill Superman."

You can read the complete article at the CBR website.

"It's a Bird. It's a Plane. It's Superman!" debuts at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre in Dallas, Texas, on June 18, 2010 and will run until July 25.



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