JUST DO IT: Superheroes for Black History Month

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JUST DO IT: Superheroes for Black History Month

POSTED: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 3:00 PM

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	Save The Day Productions
	Gerard Joseph as T'Challa a.k.a The Black Panther

You can always expect a culturally relevant lineup of comic book shenanigans from Save the Day Production's signature series, Super Heroes Who are Super! And February â Black History Month â is no exception.

At Plays & Players on Saturday, Feb. 12, an all-African-American cast will perform a play about the first black super hero in a comic, T'Challa — also known as the Black Panther. When he returns to Wakanda (yes, that's a fictional African kingdom) following his time in America with the Fantastic Four, "The Man Called Kill-Monger!" has taken over and must be stopped. Sound action-packed, enough? Wait until the bluesy American babe steps into the picture. In case you're unacquainted with Super Heroes Who are Super!, it's all straight out of the muscled Marvel characters and soap-operatic scripts of the '60s and '70s. Aided by not-so-state-of-the-art effects (we're talking water guns), the cast reads and performs the entire comic. Featuring Gerard Joseph and narrator Joe Turner, who runs Atomic City Comics on South Street, they will indulge in the racy melodrama of the Panther's Rage at 10:30 p.m., Plays & Players Third Floor Skinner Studio, $12-15, 1714 Delancey Place,savethedayproductions.org.

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