It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman! (The Musical!)
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Күн бұрынA 1975 made-for-TV reworking of the 1966 Broadway musical concerning a mad scientist and rival reporter who scheme to push Superman into a mental breakdown. This is my own rip of the bootleg -- I've tweaked the picture to improve the quality (as best as I could), included the original title and a missing credit from the ABC broadcast, tacked on an assortment of super-commercials, and created custom captions and chapters. Unfortunately, there's a strange faint audio ghosting throughout, but my every attempt to remove it just distorted the sound.
Adapted by Romeo Muller (Rudolph, Frosty, and every other Rankin/Bass holiday special!)
From the play by Robert Benton and David Newman (Bonnie & Clyde, What's Up Doc?, Superman: The Movie)
Songs by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie)
Directed by Jack Regas (The Brady Bunch Variety Hour, Krofft Supershow)
Starring David Wilson (Eddie & The Cruisers)
Lesley Ann Warren (Cinderella, Clue, Victor/Victoria)
Kenneth Mars (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, What's Up Doc?, Fletch, The Little Mermaid)
Loretta Swit (M*A*S*H)
David Wayne (How to Marry a Millionaire, The Andromeda Strain, TV's Batman)
Malachi Throne (It Takes a Thief, Star Trek, Electra Woman & Dyna Girl)
Al Molinaro (Happy Days)
Harvey Lembeck (the Beach Party movies, Sgt. Bilko)
His son, Michael Lembeck (Mary Hartman, The Krofft Supershow, One Day at a Time)
Stuart Goetz (Record City)
Alan Ludden (Password host and Mr. Betty White)
Danny Goldman (Young Frankenstein, voice of Brainy Smurf)
Geoffrey Horne (The Bridge on the River Kwai)
With prolific character actors Irene Tedrow, George Chandler, Nita Talbot & Phil Leeds
And Joanna Kerns (Growing Pains) in her TV debut as an uncredited member of the ensemble.
MDb: www.imdb.com/title/tt0339210
The final act of the original ABC broadcast can be found here: • KABC-7 197_???? Its ...
History of Comics on Film: • History Of Comics On F...
Broadway By Ghostlight's documentary on the play: • It's A Bird...It's A P...
The QuarryWorks Theater's complete 2018 performance of the stage play: • It's a Bird, It's a Pl...
Original Broadway Cast album: • It's a Bird, It's a Pl...
Linda Lavin's 2011 re-recording of "You've Got Possibilities": • You've Got Possibilities
00:00:00 ABC Wide World
00:00:18 Superman
00:02:38 Who He Is And How He Came to Be
00:04:32 We Need Him (SONG)
00:06:55 Merchant of Doom
00:08:49 It's Superman (SONG)
00:11:07 Meanwhile...
00:13:12 It's a Swell Country (SONG)
00:16:27 Back at the Daily Planet
00:20:20 Superman Makes It!
00:23:34 Revenge (SONG)
00:26:31 Sedgwick's Revenge
00:28:36 The Woman for the Man (SONG)
00:34:04 The Net Tightens
00:37:09 You've Got Possibilities (SONG)
00:40:25 Clark Kent Finds Happiness
00:42:26 You've Got What I Need (SONG)
00:46:36 Oh Clark, Have You Been There All Along?
00:48:20 What I've Always Wanted (SONG)
00:52:47 Superman Trapped!
00:56:23 Get Lost, Superman!
00:57:18 Ooh, Do You Love You! (SONG)
01:03:39 Curtains for Superman
01:04:23 The Strongest Man in the World (SONG)
01:07:10 Now to Finish Off Superman
01:15:26 Superman Triumphant
01:16:50 I'm Not Finished Yet (SONG)
01:20:29 On the Warren G. Harding Memorial Bridge
01:22:40 Pow! Bam! Zonk! (SONG)
01:26:29 The Next Day
01:27:35 End Credits
01:29:13 Aqua Velva (Broadway's Bob Holiday)
01:29:42 Superman Commercials
@Veggieman87 10 ай бұрын
I'm not even five minutes in and I am completely baffled by every decision made so far. I don't understand and yet I can't look away.
@aiiiia9971 10 ай бұрын
You have described my exact feeling
@theproanimator8447 8 ай бұрын
then just watch the musical, not the TV special
@Neville60001 6 ай бұрын
@@theproanimator8447, *_if_* you can find a production being mounted of the musical in your area.
@joel5644 6 ай бұрын
Where can it be watched?@@theproanimator8447
@lustfulmirage4885 6 ай бұрын
When I'm asked which version of Superman is my favourite. I just show them this whole video.
@ashleyhobson1414 3 ай бұрын
7:38 Oh Clark, have you been there all along? 😂 Then proceeds to ask again literally less than 3 minutes later. The humor and writing so far are top tier. lol
@MrBlueSkyof1607 8 ай бұрын
11:40 Legit, I want EVERY mafia to have that pledge from now on. Completely hilarious.
@hanschristianbrando5588 9 ай бұрын
All I'll say is: listen to the original cast album of the 1966 Broadway musical and compare it to this version.
@Garch-the-Great 9 ай бұрын
Generally, I prefer THIS version. Linda Lavin's rendition of "Possibilities" has an edge for its cuteness, and I really miss "We Don't Matter at All," but Michael O'Sullivan's continuously-crackling voice was like a bad parody of a supervillain, Bob Holiday was hardly a great singer, Kenneth Mars gave his songs much more character than Jack Cassidy did, and I love Loretta Swit's meaner take on "Do You Love You." Patricia Marand's songs were a little prettier that Lesley Ann Warren's, but that was more due to the updated style than the singer (either way, "What I've Always Wanted" and "I'm Not Finished Yet" both suck). Different strokes.
@scheddoc 4 ай бұрын
Honestly... I like a lot of this version's songs better
@Javachacin 6 ай бұрын
Saw the Goodspeed production of this in the 90’s and had a blast, a big spoof, lots of fun and I kind of love the score - and Harold Prince’s balls for producing this in the first place Edit: just read up on all the work you’ve done on this, bravo, I was surprised at how good this was looking and now I know why!
@sallydurant Жыл бұрын
Wonderful video quality. Thanks for sharing this!
@Nova7o9 8 ай бұрын
I was watching an episode of I've Got a Secret and they had Superman on as the special guest. He just explained that he's from the musical on Broadway (🤨) so I had to look into it. Thank you for uploading this! 👌
@rick86615 6 ай бұрын
I just watched that exact episode today, and now I’m here.
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
I found out from "get to know all 20 live action superman" (geek watch)
@REPORTEVERYLIBERALCOMMENT Жыл бұрын
People were much simpler back then.
@karmelodion Ай бұрын
Perfection.thank you
@KarlSturmgewher 7 ай бұрын
1:22:47 The best part... I would love to see this musical fight song with healthbars and the Street Fighter Alpha 2 announcer. I could also picture George Newburn singing this.
@davidjboyer1 6 ай бұрын
Vinnie- Thanks for posting! This production was aired only twice on TV around 1975-76. As a 7th grader, I saw it both times and recorded it on my portable cassette recorder the second time; listened to it for years! While certainly not the greatest production by any measure, it's campy, fun, and some great work went into putting it together for broadway.
@bryanpeters1733 11 ай бұрын
highly appreciate this and captions working on it!
@zeekayart 6 ай бұрын
god this was amazing
@John231984 8 ай бұрын
I wish I wasn't high right now. WTF am I watching!
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
There's a batman musical with better quality and acting its called holy musical b@man
@jsl151850b 5 ай бұрын
*February 21, 1975*
@RobTFirefly Жыл бұрын
This is amazing! Thanks for the share.
@user-kf8wb2cq4f 8 ай бұрын
Very interesting and entertaining.
@JohnDoe-uf3lj 9 күн бұрын
Hold on… Are you saying Superman could destroy HIMSELF?!
@joelvanderveen1107 4 ай бұрын
I look this up a couple of times a year just to cringe at Allen Ludden as Perry White 7:13
@ashleyhobson1414 3 ай бұрын
lol
@JesuIsTheOnlyWayToSalvation 7 күн бұрын
Terrible, but charming and hard to stop watching. It's also nostalgic. ❤
@TomStewart 2 ай бұрын
Total trainwreck, but a fun watch.
@figarooschmucker8667 5 ай бұрын
Young Zack Snyder saw this and never got over it
@amazingabby25 4 ай бұрын
Is that true? He actually saw it
@riverebec1 8 ай бұрын
Is it the audio or are these actors really that off key?
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
Idk
@BasicallynoOneAtAll 10 ай бұрын
It's a bird, it's a plane-no, it's Satan in the flesh
@Angel12629 3 ай бұрын
1:06:05
@braxtonbobo4004 7 ай бұрын
Man, and I thought Spider-Man had the worst musical
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
Spiderman had a musical too? I thought It was just batman (team starkid) untill i found this😂
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
@Timepilot94 batman's musical was a gem(my opinion) this one is just ridiculous 😂
@dccomicsfan-rl1wl 5 ай бұрын
@Timepilot94 I'm still confused on why spider-man was in the outro 😂
@randolphhicks8208 Жыл бұрын
1:25:12
@Angel12629 3 ай бұрын
1:06:05
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