Having lived in the “Second City” of more than 8 million folks for nearly 20 years, my wife and I had some wonderful opportunities to see a lot of wonderful musical performers and funny shows, among the funniest an improv theatre’s 90-minute rendition of Batman, mixing the 60s doofus with Burton’s alienated Bat-freak, a decade ago.

Flashing forward to today, if I had the free time and cash — all dry on both counts — I might’ve been so inclined to see the Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company’s off-off Broadway production of Men of Steel, praised this week in the New York Times as a “culturally savvy comedy,” at Center Stage in New York, running through April 8.

Sounds like the Vampire Cowboys hit all the grace notes with Captain America, Liberty Belle/Wonder Woman and Batman cyphers (Captain Justice, Liberty Lady and Maelstrom) and a mad villain, the Mole, “who prefers making dramatic statements of intent to actually avoiding weapons hurled at him.”

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