IT'S A BIRD… IT'S A PLANE… IT'S SUPERMAN
Composer: Charles
Strouse
Lyricist: Lee Adams
Opened: March 29, 1966, Alvin Theatre, N.Y.C.
Performances: 129
Note: Only numbers not found on the original Broadway cast recording are noted below.
Didja See That (cut):
1. Composer Demo (Charles
Strouse and Lee Adams) [reissued on It's A Bird…It's A
Plane…It's Superman, CD/Sony Broadway SK 482087 (bonus track)
Dot, Dot, Dot (cut):
1. Composer Demo (Charles
Strouse and Lee Adams) [reissued on It's A Bird…It's A
Plane…It's Superman, CD/Sony Broadway SK 482087 (bonus track)
A Woman Alone (cut but later used in
the 2010 Dallas Theatre Center revival; music
reused for "Auf Wiedersehn" in DANCE A LITTLE CLOSER):
1. Composer Demo (Charles
Strouse and Lee Adams) [reissued on It's A Bird…It's A
Plane…It's Superman, CD/Sony Broadway SK 482087 (bonus track)
2. Dance A Little Closer, CD/That's Entertainment Records CDTER
1174 (George Rose with orchestra directed by Peter Howard) (as
"Auf Wiedersehn")
Unrecorded Numbers:
Everything's Easy When You
Know How
I Never Felt This Way For Anyone Before (cut)
I Wish I Wasn't In Love With Superman (written for the 2010
Dallas Theatre Center revival)
I'm Too Young To Die (cut during previews)
I've Never Felt This Way (written for the
2010 Dallas Theatre Center revival)
It's A Great [Swell] Country (written for the 1975
television version)
It's A Long, Slow Climb Going Up But A Short Fast Slide Coming
Down (cut during previews) (aka "It's A Long Slow Climb Going Up
But A Short Quick Slide Coming Down)
It's Up To Me (written for the 1992 Goodspeed revival and used
in the 2010 Dallas Theatre
Center revival))
Just A Bunch Of Happy People (written for the 2010 Dallas
Theatre Center revival)
Just A Bunch Of Happy Villains (written for the 2010 Dallas
Theatre Center revival)
Karabitz! (written for the 1992 Goodspeed revival)
Later (written for the 1992 Goodspeed revival)
Meanwhile (cut)
Nuts To You (written for the 1992 Goodspeed revival)
On My Honor (written for the 2010 Dallas Theatre Center revival)
The Super Note (cut)
The Superman March (inst.) (cut)
Thanks To You (written for the 1992 Goodspeed revival)
Until I've Rescued Superman (written for the 2010 Dallas Theatre
Center revival)