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	Capeman Book - Press Release
		After months of corresponding with Salvador Agron, Jacoby was so impressed with the Capeman's writing that he promised to help him write his autobiography.
		Beginning with that promise, CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CAPEMAN retraces Agron's life as Jacoby uncovered it through visits with Sal's family, trips to Puerto Rico and mostly through hundreds of letters and jail house conversations with Salvador.
		It was the summer between high school and college, and the story was all over the newspapers and on television.
	www.capemanbook.com /press_release.html (498 words)

	Return to Kirbylee
		Capeman and Ultrawoman are relaxing on two beach chairs on the beach.
		Capeman flies off towards the dinosaurs as the group rushes towards their objectives.
		Capeman then punches Nilrem so hard he flies up through the air until he goes down, landing in a volcano off in the distance.
	www.slightlywarped.com /justicesquad/season1/js39-returntokirbylee.htm (7493 words)

	Playbill News: Playbill Poll: Your Views on the Capeman Closing
		Capeman was far from the best and even further from the worst.
		With the demise of the failed CAPEMAN, we ought to be thankful for a couple things it did, in fact, accomplish while drawing a couple lessons too few neophytes year after year have been willing to learn.
		One of the main reasons Capeman flopped is because the songs have second rate lyrics.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/37865.html (3397 words)

	Songs From the Capeman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Songs From the Capeman is an album released in 1997 by Paul Simon.
		It contains original cast performances from the Broadway musical he wrote and produced called The Capeman.
		A departure musically from his earlier work, the album features doo wop, rock 'n' roll and Puerto Rican rythmns.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Songs_From_the_Capeman (164 words)

	The Capeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Capeman is based on the true story of a young man who was involved in a gang fight in which two innocent teenagers were killed.
		The tabloid press of the day fired up its readers with the tale of the caped killer, who was soon caught, and scornfully told the press that, for all he cared, his mother could watch him fry in the electric chair.
		Ednita Nazario as the Capeman's forgiving and always-loving mother provides a calm center for the musical, and holds together this tricky story of redemption by providing a model of principle, strength and unshakable morality.
	www.ovationtv.com /artszone/reviews/capeman.html (1140 words)

	Records: Paul Simon weaves a multitextured 'Capeman' \| Jan, 30 1998
		The songs, which all come from Simon's new musical The Capeman, outline the true story of Salvador Agron, an immigrant from Puerto Rico who was sentenced to the electric chair at the age of 16 for the murder of two white boys in New York City in 1959.
		His gang was called the Vampires, and he wore a red cape, prompting the tabloid press to refer to him as the "The Capeman." Because he showed no remorse for the murders, the press portrayed him as symbolic of evil and the collapse of society.
		However, Songs From The Capeman is unlike anything Simon has done previously, an assemblage of diverse musical styles and dramatic perspectives.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxv/1.30.98/ae/capeman.html (567 words)

	Playbill News: Playbill Poll: The Capeman Controversy
		If Capeman were filled with gratuitous scenes depicting the victims' violent deaths, then, one might argue the show is exploiting the victims and being insensitive to the feelings of the victims still-living relatives.
		As others have stated, The Capeman is not the first time that the theatre has dealt with violent death, nor is it the first time that the theatre has dealt with reality.
		In sum, I hope "The Capeman" is a success because I am a Paul Simon fan, but I am still ambivalent about it and I wish he could have lent his incredible talents to another subject other than a real-life murder case.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/36472.html (3164 words)

	12/02/97 - CD Spotlight: Paul Simon, Celine Dion, Will Smith, Flying Saucer Attack, Tony Conrad - IDS Online, A and E
		It's this attitude that has caused Simon, now 56, to be labeled as a control freak, and it's probably why Songs from "The Capeman" is the artist's first new album in six years.
		Songs is an hour's worth of music from Simon's forthcoming Broadway musical "The Capeman," based on the true story of a Puerto Rican teenager named Salvador Agron who murdered two people in New York in the summer of 1959 (the nickname stemmed from the fact that Agron was wearing a fl cape at the time).
		That said, it's safe to predict that with "The Capeman" and the recent release of a three-CD Simon and Garfunkel box set, the spotlight on Paul Simon is far from dimming.
	www.indiana.edu /~ids/archives/1209cd.html (1564 words)

	The Story Of The Capeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		He was described as model prisoner: he learned to write poetry, became something of a political activist and never again committed a violent act.
		He was what the system would describe as "rehabilitated," or what he described as "rehumanized," but nontheless remained identified in the public imagination as "The Capeman." He died in the Bronx on April 22, 1986, of natural causes.
		Songs From The Capeman is the first studio album in six years from music legend Paul Simon.
	www.wbr.com /paulsimon/capeman/cmp/story.html (552 words)

	The Capeman Murders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		From the cab emerged Salvador Agron, the Capeman, who was decked out in a borrowed, crimson-lined fl satin cape and fancy shoes, and Antonio Luis Hernandez, the Umbrella Man. Agron, a.k.a.
		In a city reeling from youth gang violence, the murders in May Mathews Playground soon became famous as "The Capeman Murders" and still stand today as one of the most publicized crimes of the era, serving as the climactic event of the concrete jungle fifties.
		The Capeman Murders riveted attention on the legions of dispossessed youth plaguing American cities, even as the country experienced a great age of affluence in the years following World War II.
	www.midtownmedia.com /chronicle/capeman.htm (1857 words)

	The Paul Simon Anthology - Songs From The Capeman
		He earned the name "The Capeman" from the way he was described.
		Many people have claimed that Paul's intentions with the musical, was not to attract as many spectators as possible, but simply to tell the story of "the Capeman".
		If you would like a more comprehensive story and information of "the Capeman", I would recommend you to visit "The Story of the Capeman"-website.
	home.c2i.net /chrhansen/capeman.html (445 words)

	Rolling Stone :
		Early preview audiences tended to agree, generally citing "The Capeman"'s buoyant score as its primary strength in the difficult story of Salvador Agron, a functionally illiterate Puerto Rican immigrant who killed two Irish youths in 1959 and rehabilitated himself during his 20 years in prison.
		But as enjoyable as the music might be, "The Capeman" struggles to overcome the pitfalls of a story whose subtle complexities demand a more thoughtful and complete examination.
		On the run from the law in the Arizona desert, Agron experiences an epiphany that leaves him hallucinating before a singing St. Lazarus that can only be described as New Age self-help meets "Easy Rider." By the time Agron is finally paroled, the audience feels just as estranged as he does.
	www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5925439/the_capeman/print (405 words)

	RW ONLINE:The Message of Capeman
		As Simon's "Songs from the Capeman" CD foretold, this musical with book and lyrics by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, the renowned West Indian poet, is in fact full of heart for the people.
		One bit of people's history which "Capeman" retrieves (and the reviewers never stop griping about this) is how the '50s became the '60s, and how the resistance movement of that day shaped Salvador Agron, even while he was locked down on death row.
		But by giving us Sal's story and putting his culture on the stage, "The Capeman" dared to give those lucky enough to see it a way of understanding the life of such a man--and the endless and surprising possibilities we have for transforming ourselves and this world.
	rwor.org /a/v19/940-49/949/capeman.htm (2547 words)

	Inspector Gadget (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		That Capeman guy was a major-league loser, a wannabe superhero who was a bigger screw up than even Gadget himself.
		Capeman complete stupidity was annoying, but it wasn't bad enough to make the show jump the shark.
		Capeman may not have been the best thing to arrive on Inspector Gadget, but he was at least somewhat comical.
	www.jumptheshark.com /i/inspectorgadget.htm (1848 words)

	<< stephen j. dubner >>
		Paul Simon is sitting in an Irish tavern on Columbus Avenue, finishing off a plate of roast turkey and mashed potatoes, watching the Yankees' season crash to a close and insisting that he is not a perfectionist.
		Then there was the time, with the whole ''Capeman'' cast and band standing by, that Simon ''spent half an hour moving the tambourine around the room to see where it would sound best,'' as one person who was in the room recalls.
		But he did fall in love with music, early and hard, and he saw the Capeman tale as a means to revisit that love.
	www.stephenjdubner.com /journalism/110997.html (8058 words)

	The Capeman, a CurtainUp review
		Contrary to all the schadenfreude rumors that accompanied The Capeman's unusually long preview run, this new contender in the Broadway sweepstakes has enough jewels sewn into its cape to make it less a disaster than a concept that's more an illustrated concert than a fully realized musical.
		Simon's talent for creating memorable rhythms is in evidence throughout the two hours and twenty minutes and the orchestration by Oscar Hernandez are a far cry from the many gratingly over miked sounds typical of many Broadway musicals.
		On Stage: The rehabilitation is elevated to a redemption and the sin-suffer-repent theme underscored by the introduction of a racist prison guard as one more injustice for this miguided and undereducated young man to overcome.
	www.curtainup.com /capeman.html (1711 words)

	George Graham Reviews Paul Simon's "Songs from the Capeman" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		It involves one Salvador Agron who was a member of a Puerto Rican gang called The Vampires, who were on their way to a confrontation with an Irish gang called the Norsemen, when a rumble broke out and two teenaged innocent bystanders were stabbed to death.
		Simon was drawn to the story, which suggested a musical setting of 1950s styles and Latin rhythms, which were a part of his own formative years.
		In our weekly sound-quality grade, we'll give the CD an "A." The mix is excellent and captures everything well, but dynamic range is restricted a bit by the usual compression in mastering that is typical of major-label CD releases.
	georgegraham.com /simon.html (1319 words)

	The Insider by Ken Mandelbaum: Obscure Videos: A Roll of the Dice, - Broadway.com Buzz
		When Paul Simon's first and probably last Broadway musical, The Capeman, closed at the Marquis Theatre in March, 1998 after terrible reviews and sixty-eight performances, the headline on the front page of at least one Manhattan tabloid screamed that the show was the biggest flop in history.
		Simon states that the story of Agron, who was dubbed "the capeman," represents the time in which he grew up, which wasn't, he is quick to note, anything like Grease or "Happy Days." Simon cryptically states that, like Agron, he is a liar and a truth-seeker.
		At last, Capeman choreographer Mark Morris, a distinguished figure in the dance world, moves up to the role of director-choreographer, even if the footage indicates that Morris is more comfortable staging the dances than directing the performances.
	www.broadway.com /Gen/Buzz_Story.aspx?ci=526022 (1237 words)

	Nude as the News: Paul Simon: Songs From The Capeman
		It's this attitude that has caused Simon to be labeled as a control freak, and it's probably why Songs From The Capeman was, at the time of its release, the artist's first new album in six years.
		Songs is an hour's worth of music from Simon's ill-fated Broadway musical "The Capeman," based on the true story of a Puerto Rican teenager named Salvador Agron who murdered two people in New York in the summer of 1959 (the nickname stemmed from the fact that Agron was wearing a fl cape at the time).
		That said, it's safe to predict that with "The Capeman" and the '97 release of a three-CD Simon and Garfunkel box set, the spotlight on Paul Simon is far from dimming.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/79 (697 words)

	E! Online News - "The Capeman" Cometh...Finally
		Paul Simon's The Capeman officially opens on Broadway tonight.
		Capeman spinmeisters have been busy in recent days trying to paint a more upbeat picture of the troubled show, saying that Tony Award-winning director Jerry Zaks and a "SWAT team" are whipping the show into shape.
		The Capeman, featuring a top ticket price of $75, stars salsa singer Marc Anthony as the 16-year-old Agron, and singer/actor Ruben Blades as the middle-aged Agron.
	www.eonline.com /News/Items/Pf/0,1527,2460,00.html (448 words)

	Booby Trap
		Capeman, this is no time for you to go off gallivanting to Hollywood just because some guy named Alan Smithee gave you a call!
		CAPEMAN flies through the air and towards a massive studio.
		Capeman, I called you here because I have an offer you would be a fool to refuse.
	www.slightlywarped.com /liam/season1/liam21.html (2658 words)

	Save the Turkey! - Part 1
		The Capeman by Paul Simon and Derek Walcott, after heavily reported trials and tribulations, postponements, and directorial and script changes, opened to nearly universal anathema from the press and barely ran.
		A kind of "Save the Capeman" web site, begins with The Capeman News (the site has no apparent title), reporting on recent events of interest to Capeman devotees (e.g., information about the constantly postponed release of the original cast album).
		This page by a student at a professional performing arts school (apparently unaware that the taking of photographs of a show from the audience is illegal), contains a large number of photos taken during curtain calls, outside the stage door of the theatre, and from a variety of other sources.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/theatre/9502 (293 words)

	Playbill News: Paul Simon's Broadway Capeman Opens Tonight
		Capeman director-choreographer of record, Mark Morris, reportedly was back working with his own dance company this week.
		According to audience members who saw Capeman weeks ago and again in the last two weeks of previews, the show has undergone much cutting and changes in blocking, including less time spent in the prison in act two, and a revised ending.
		Capeman is being produced by Plenaro Productions, Dan Klores and Edgar Dobie, in association with James L. Nederlander.
	www.playbill.com /news/article/36685.html (1636 words)

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		The Capeman was neither rock musical, pop opera, nor traditional musical theatre piece, but it is filled with haunting music, strange, tantalizingly lovely sequences, and several outstanding songs ("Born in Puerto Rico," "Can I Forgive Him?," "Adios Hermanos," "Time Is An Ocean," "Sunday Afternoon").
		The recording serves to remind one that The Capeman was done a disservice by being mounted directly on Broadway.
		And even without Bob Crowley's wonderful set designs, The Capeman may find more favor on disc than it did on Broadway, as its song-cycle nature is less of a problem on a recording.
	members.fortunecity.com /ewhans/PScapeman_cast.htm (1411 words)

	Salon \| Sharps and Flats: Paul Simon
		You've probably heard that "The Capeman" is Simon's forthcoming Broadway musical, based on a famous incident from 1959, when 16-year-old Salvador Agron murdered two other New York City teenagers and was sentenced to death himself, then had the sentence commuted.
		Considered as Broadway fare, "The Capeman's" songs are either a brilliant new direction for theater music or a disastrous understatement -- it's hard to tell before the show opens.
		"Songs From 'The Capeman'" doesn't totally click as a complete album the way Simon's last two did; when it switches out of the '50s idioms of the first half, it loses some steam, and its dips into original-cast-recording mentality distract from the unity of Simon's work.
	archive.salon.com /music/sharps/1997/11/26sharps2.html (549 words)

	Inspector Gadget: Gadget's Greatest Gadgets (1999) (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Capeman (segments "The Capeman Cometh" and "Gadget's Gadgets")
		Finally, Gadget recalls the time he and Capeman were whisked to a clinic for check-ups.
		Gadget and Capeman escaped certain death numerous times with their oblivious tactics.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0288065 (849 words)

	capeman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Agrón wrote the letter from prison, where he was serving for the murder of two innocent boys he murdered when he was sixteen.
		A manhunt was arranged for the arrest of the boy who had become known as the "Capeman," a named penned by the press because of the cape he wore at the time of murders.
		Three days later Salvador Agrón was apprehended and charged with murder, as well as Hernandez and five other members of the Vampires.
	freespace.virgin.net /julian.moseley/Dreamland/capeman.htm (1114 words)

	Amazon.com: Songs From The Capeman (1997 Concept Cast Album): Music: Paul Simon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		What a shame the production of The Capeman failed, because that failure will probably mean that not very many people will ever hear this album, which is not only one of the best things Paul Simon has ever done, but one of the best albums I have ever heard.
		After the failure of The Capeman, its unlikely Paul Simon will be tempted to try another Broadway musical.
		The Capeman is perhaps Paul Simon's highest achievement; sheer unadulterated brilliance from start to finish.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002NJ3?v=glance (1791 words)

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