Superhero Tickets

By: Music & Lyrics by Tom Kitt and a Book by John Logan
Director: Jason Moore
Producer: Second Stage Theater
Cast list: Kate Baldwin (as Charlotte), Bryce Pinkham (as Jim), Kyle McArthur (as Simon), Julia Abueva (as Rachel), Jake Levy (as Dwayne), Salena Qureshi (as Vee), Thom Sesma (as Vic), and Nathaniel Stampley (as Dean Fulton)
Design: Beowulf Boritt
Lighting: Jennifer Schriever
Costume: Sarah Laux
Choreography: Lorin Latarro
Sound: Brian Ronan
Other info: Music Direction by Bryan Perri, Orchestrations by Michael Starobin & Tom Kitt, and Projection
Design: by Tal Yarden

A superhero named Jim (Bryce Pinkham) may be just who Charlotte (Kate Baldwin) and her teenage son, Simon (Kyle McArthur), need after a difficult year coping with the death of Charlotte’s husband and Simon’s father. Although their family has been torn apart by the void he’s left, with Jim’s help, they are on the brink of moving forward.

Featuring music by Tom Kitt, one half of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning songwriting team behind “Next to Normal” and the music supervisor of “SpongeBob SquarePants,” and a book by Tony Award-winning “Red” writer John Logan, the world premiere of “Superhero” shines a spotlight on a fractured family. Like “Next to Normal,” Kitt reveals, “It’s a project I feel deeply personal about and cathartic. I really feel like my heart’s on the page.”

What to watch for

Kyle McArthur makes his professional theater debut in “Superhero,” after participating in its developmental reading at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.

Kelli O’Hara was among the cast of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center staging, helping workshop the piece.

Songwriter Tom Kitt describes this superhero story as focusing more on the human aspects of the hero and less about the action-packed battles. “It’s more about the Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne idea,” he says.