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DAVID NEWMAN (1937 - 2003)
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It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman Life, The Oh! Calcutta!It's a Bird It's a Plane It's Superman
the Man of Steel finds himself in a Metropolis that may not need a hero anymore
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book by David Newman And Robert Benton; music by Charles Strouse; lyrics by Lee Adams
1st Produced:
Alvin Theatre, (New York) 1966
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1st Published:
- SK-48207
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Original cast recording: Sony ((SK-48207)
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Queen is a prostitute in New York. She works to support her Vietnam vet boyfriend Fleetwood. She has finally saved up enough for them both to leave New York for a better life. When she goes to get the money she finds that Fleetwood has spent it all on drugs and gambling. Fleetwood and his friend Jojo pick up a girl new in town and bring her back to Queen's apartment. They tell her they will make her rich and famous. That night Queen is picked up by the police and spends the night in jail. In the morning she finds that Fleetwood, Jojo and the girl have spent all night having sex together. She leaves Fleetwood and goes to work for a pimp called Memphis. But he beats her up. A friend gets her a bus ticket to leave. Just as she boards the bus both Memphis and Fleetwood turn up
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Music by Cy Coleman; Lyrics by Ira Gasman; Book by David Newman, Ira Gasman And Cy Coleman; Based on An original idea by Ira Gasman
1st Produced:
Westbeth Theatre Center -
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1st Published:
- the-life
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Original cast recording: Sony (SK-63312) 1997
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Top of PageOh! Calcutta!
Oh! Calcutta! was a long-running avant-garde theatrical revue, created by British drama critic Kenneth Tynan. The show, consisting of various sketches on sex-related topics, debuted in Off-Broadway in 1969. It proved, once again, that sex sells, running in London for over 2,400 performances, and in New York for over 1,600. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time, because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!", French for "What an ass you have!". Tynan had hoped that Harold Pinter would direct the production, in order to give it avant-garde legitimacy, but Pinter declined. (The original director was Jacques Levy, remembered by most now as the songwriting partner of Bob Dylan on his album Desire.) Most of the sketches (written, amongst others, by Nobel prize winner Samuel Beckett, John Lennon, Sam Shepard, Edna O'Brien, Jules Feiffer, and Tynan himself) featured the cast naked (including Bill Macy). Peter Schickele (aka 'PDQ Bach'), Robert Dennis and Stanley Walden were the revue's composers, known as The Open Window. A pay-per-view video production played on closed-circuit TV in select cities in 1971, and in 1972 a motion picture version was also released - in both cases many cities and municipalities banned its showing. A 1976 Broadway revival at the Edison Theatre ran for thirteen years, briefly becoming the longest-running play in Broadway history, with a total of 5,959 performances.
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Conceived by Kenneth Tynan; Contributions by Samuel Beckett, Jules Feiffer, Dan Greenburg, John Lennon, Jacques Levy, Leonard Melfi, David Newman, Robert Benton, Sam Shepard, Clovis Trouille, Kenneth Tynan And Sherman Yellen; Music And Lyrics, The Open Window: Robert Dennis, Peter Schickele And Stanley Walden; Musical Director: Norman Bergen
1st Produced:
Eden Theatre, Off Broadway, NY 17 Jun 1969
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1st Published:
Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1988 978-09368339486
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