{"id":6134,"date":"2015-09-01T09:45:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=6134"},"modified":"2021-04-07T03:06:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T08:06:54","slug":"did-steven-spielberg-want-to-direct-the-first-superman-movie-as-a-musical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2015\/09\/01\/did-steven-spielberg-want-to-direct-the-first-superman-movie-as-a-musical\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Steven Spielberg Want to Direct the First Superman Movie as a Musical?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about movies and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> to view an archive of the Movie urban legends featured so far.<\/p>\n

MOVIE URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: Steven Spielberg wanted to direct the first Superman film and do it as a musical. <\/p>\n

In 1966, just a few short months after the Batman<\/em> TV series debuted, legendary Broadway composer Charles Strouse (a three-time Tony Award winner for Best Score, including another musical based on a comic, Annie<\/i>) opened a brand-new musical called It\u2019s a Bird\u2026It\u2019s a Plane\u2026It\u2019s Superman <\/i> (with lyrics by Lee Adams). Looking back, the musical is often lumped in as one of the many projects launched in the late 1960s designed to cash in on the Bat-Mania that the Batman<\/em> TV series caused. However, as I noted in an old Comic Book Legends Revealed<\/a>, there likely was no such connection. Strouse did not write It\u2019s a Bird\u2026It\u2019s a Plane\u2026It\u2019s Superman <\/i> as camp, but with the same straightforward approach he later did with Annie<\/i> – the end result just happened to be a campy musical. <\/p>\n

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