Scene 1, Act I of Un-Super Heroes opens on October 16th 1940 with the arrival of patient Charles Aronson at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City just as the last scene of the last Act (V) is August 15th 1944 with Charlie's departure from that same hospital.
But every drama deserves an epilogue and Un-Super Heroes's epilogue is set onstage at New York City's Apollo Theatre, just a mile from the Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, on the night of February 17th 1956.
Appearing as a headliner in New York City for the very first time is a Georgia-born black singer from a dead poor family , a singer born with a badly handicapped leg.
But if racism, poverty and his affliction have held him back , he could only echo the sentiments from one of the first of Dawson's SBE cures, Miriam Laskowitz .
Because, like her , regardless of what problems life has tossed him, his heart and lungs certainly weren't one of them.
No siree Bob - or should that be no siree
"A-wop-bom-a-loo-mop-a-lomp-bom-bom!"
Lessons for climate saving un-superheroes from Janus Manhattan '45. The MANHATTAN nuclear PROJECT worked against Nature, causing (rather than preventing) environmental disaster. The MANHATTAN penicillin PROJECT worked with Nature, giving humanity a lasting boon.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014
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