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It's Superman
Music: Charles Strouse
Lyrics: Lee Adams
Book: David Newman + Robert Benton
Premiere: Tuesday, March 29, 1966
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OVERTURE
[Orchestra]
SUPERMAN:
Bullets can't hurt me
LOIS:
Oh Superman, you saved my life again!
SUPERMAN:
Ah, Lois. It was nothing!
LOIS:
Would you like to dance?
Now, where did he go?
DOING GOOD
SUPERMAN:
Every man has a job to do
And my job is doing good.
Every night when the job is through
I fold my tights, proud to know
I've done all I could.
It's a satisfying feeling
When you hang up your cape
To know that you've averted
Murder, larceny and rape.
Every man has a job to do;
Well, back into the old Clark Kent disguise.
I'll never stop doing good.
Other men have their work to do
But as for me, I must live,
Not one life but two.
This disguise is really wonderful
For who would guess
That underneath this white shirt
Is a great big red "S".
Every man has his job to do
And my job is doing good.
I'll never stop doing good.
Oh, it's hard to keep on wearing
The old Clark Kent smile,
But I know I have to do it 'cause
My work is so worthwhile.
La-de-dum, it's a funny life.
Still and all, a life well spent.
So here you go, bravery gone,
Complications, accusations,
A world of cheap sensations,
A world with no foundations,
And so we need him.
Trouble looms and somehow he knows
We need him, we need him.
Down he zooms and that's the end of those
Who fight him
And that's why we need him.
He saved my baby from a fire.
He caught the thug who was mugging Uncle Meyer.
Yes, when a bad situation grows dire
We need him. Him.
He brings the orphans Christmas turkey.
He flew my asthmatic son to Albuquerque.
Yes, when the world's moral standards grow murky
We need him.
Max:
Who needs him?
Lois: I need him.
Clark: They need me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, in this world of moral decay
We know this he is good
And we need him!
IT'S SUPERMAN
LOIS LANE:
Oh how I wish I weren't in love
With Superman.
A wasted life is all I've got
With Superman.
To hope that it could ever be
Is just a schoolgirl fantasy.
Oh, is there no one else for me
But Superman?
Does he ever hold me?
Has he ever told me
He could care?
Tell me please when will he
Learn it's not some silly
Fly-by-night affair?
Revenge, revenge,
Oh, it will taste so sweet.
A misanthrope, yes, I might be,
An outcast of society.
Think what you like, but just give me
Revenge, revenge!
It really goes way back,
My parents hated me -You see, my birth surprised them.
Mom was sixty-three.
Nanny smelled of Clorox
And boarding school was hell.
I'll show you Dad, and Mom and Nanny
And Alfred B. Nobel.
Revenge, revenge,
That's all I live for now.
I'll make them wince and cringe and cry.
I spit in their collective eye.
I'll have one thing before I die -And I'll have it by destroying the world's symbol of Goodness - Superman!
Revenge!
THE WOMAN FOR THE MAN
MAX MENCKEN & LOIS LANE:
You know, you're really quite a dish.
You're what a guy might call delish.
You've got an awful lot of class.
You're packed as solid as a knish.
But every time I make a pass,
I get the well known freezeroo.
What's the bit, kid? I admit, kid,
I can't figure you.
You're the woman for the man
Who has everything.
Let me show you how to live.
Girls who get are girls who give.
You're the woman for the man
Who has everything.
I'm a man who has everything.
Everything but you.
Ah, Lois, you're fighting it! But you can't deny it;
the old chemistry is getting to ya. Hubba, hubba.
At every opening night, I'm there.
Headwaiters know me everywhere.
Of course, it's freebies all the way.
A check for me - they wouldn't dare.
A chick is seen with me today,
Tomorrow Zanuck starts to call.
Peoria.
no!
Victoria to go.
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a There goes a Superman. A look!
Look, up in the sky,
There goes Supe, baby, my-oh-my.
He gets the bad guys, rough guys,
Any size tough guys
Wooh yeah, wooh yeah, oh, oh
Come on, come on, come on now, baby.
When you're wingin', oh baby
Hey, you're swingin', oh baby
We love you, baby,
We love you, baby,
We love you baby,
Hey, you're coo coo
sky so empty?
where is he?
he desert us?
how could you?
It's Superman.
MAX MENCKEN & DR. ABNER SEDGWICK:It's gonna bring back villainy
Who's faster than a superjet?
It's Superman
How could he desert us
Knowing it would hurt us?
Why did you do this awful thing?
Nobody knows how it can be,
A man as brave and good as he.
Where is the friend we used to see?
The flashing cape that kept us free,
Who is the man of mystery,
MAX MENCKEN & DR. ABNER SEDGWICK:
The day will live in infamy
When we show his identity
Our enemy!
How we love him!
It's Superman!
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A Woman Alone
CHARLES STROUSE:
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You've Got Possibilities
CHARLES STROUSE:
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Did You See That?
CHARLES STROUSE & LEE ADAMS:
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