Its a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman': Museum Object and Cultural History
Its a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman': date made: 1966. maker: Columbia. Object Name: playbill.
The object in the museum catalogue
Columbia Records original cast album for the 1966 Broadway production, "It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman". A musical comedy starring Jack Cassidy and directed by Hal Prince. Based on the comic strip "Superman", with lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.
Published by E.H. Morris and Columbia Masterworks The "360 Sound"
The record cover is a view of the New York skyline at night with an animated figure of superman flying above the city.
Materials, dates and provenance
- date made: 1966
- maker: Columbia
- Object Name: playbill
- Object Name: phonograph record
- Object Name: sound recording
- Physical Description: vinyl (overall material)
- Physical Description: paper (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 12 in; 30.48 cm
- place made: United States
- ID Number: 2010.0128.01
- accession number: 2010.0128
- catalog number: 2010.0128.01
- maker number: KOS 2970
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of American History through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed.
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