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Auction History Result 4j205 IT'S A BIRD IT'S A PLANE IT'S SUPERMAN linen 41x84 stage poster 1966 on Broadway, ultra rare! Date Sold 3/5/2019 Sold For: Login or Register to see sold price. An Original Vintage Linenbacked Stage Play Poster (measures 41" x 84 1/4" [104 x 214 cm]) (Learn More) It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman, the 1966 Harold Prince Broadway stage play production (of the play by David Newman, Robert Benton, Charles Strouse & Lee Adams; based on the classic DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; "The new musical comedy") starring Jack Cassidy, Michael O'Sullivan, Patricia Marand ("as Lois Lane"), Don Chastain, Linda Lavin (much later "Alice" on TV), The Flying Lings, and Bob Holiday (in the title tole "as Superman"/Clark Kent). Note that after the great success of the Batman TV show, which started in 1966, it was only natural to try to do something similar with Superman. Legendary Broadway producer Harold Prince came up with the idea of a musical play based on the character, and David Newman and Robert Benton were hired to write the book, and Charles Strauss and Lee Adams wrote the music and lyrics. The play opened to generally good reviews, but it did not "catch on" with the Broadway going public of that day, and it only ran 129 performances. In 1975, a TV special was created from a truncated version of this play, but it did not get great reviews, and it was shown on ABC on its late night "Wide World of Entertainment". However, the idea of creating a new successful Superman could not be stopped, and in 1978, a major budget blockbuster movie called "Superman" was released, and David Newman and Robert Benton wrote the script for it, and it was a massive worldwide success! NOTE: Click on linked names to see a biography. If you know who did the art (if any), please let us know. Important Added Info: Note that we have never before auctioned this poster or any other poster from this Broadway production! What IS linenbacking? Learn More Overall Condition and Pre-Restoration Defects with Quality of Restoration: good to very good. The poster had slight darkening and scuffs on parts of the folds and some smudges and small stains in the lower left yellow background area. Overall, the poster was in very good condition prior to linenbacking. The restorer backed the poster "in the European style", meaning that they did not do restoration to the defects described above. After the poster was backed, it acquired two light circular stains in the top right yellow background area, and it either acquired smudges in the yellow background area then, or had them earlier. The poster could be displayed or enjoyed as it is, or certainly, one could have restoration performed to the above defects, with or without re-backing this extremely rare poster. Learn More about condition grades 
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