“This post has been corrected. See below for details.Pop quiz: Name the Broadway musical based on a comic book in which an actor playing a superhero fell from his safety harness while flying through the air. If you answered, “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” you’d be wrong. Spider-Man doesn’t fly; he swings.The correct response is “It’s a Bird … It’s a Plane … It’s Superman,” the 1966 musical about the Man of Steel. The show boasted an impressive pedigree; it was directed by Hal Prince who made a name for himself with “West Side Story” and “Cabaret”, with music and lyrics by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams the team behind “Bye Bye Birdie” and the book was written by David Newman and Robert Benton who, more than a decade later, would co-write Richard Donner’s “Superman: The Movie“….

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