I was impressed with the level of real-life detail Katz included. At times this led to jarring transitions but at other times it generated great pathos. The story focused on Jerry’s “relationship” with his creation, Superman, as well as his struggles on four levels: dealing with the loss of his father who died during a robbery, dealing with selling all rights to Superman for $130, dealing with abandoning his firstborn child Michael after divorcing his first wife, and grappling (as everyone of the period did) with the unthinkable atrocities of the Holocaust.Īny one of those issues would be provocative and complex, but the playwright, David Bar Katz, wove all four into the story. Apparently I'm the only Jerry Siegel historian in the congregation. On 6/13/12, my generous synagogue, Washington Hebrew Congregation, invited me to attend the play The History of Invulnerability in Washington DC. But then again, if you’d told me there’d be a picture book biography of him (and Joe Shuster), I wouldn’t have believed that either. If ten years ago you’d have told me that there would one day be a stage play about Jerry Siegel, I wouldn’t have believed you.
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