BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions- Page 2

[PalJoey]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 2:39pm

animosity between John Stamos and Bobby Flatbottom


Dollypop--that comment is BENEATH you.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 3:36pm

The show is an utter delight. It has EVERY reason to be on b'way, in the past, present and future. But this production was awful. The director had so little understanding as to what the true intent of the piece is.

Stamos SHOULD have been wonderful, I still believe with a different director, he would have been. Gershon was awful, cringe-worthy, in fact.

No one was on the same page. A mess, through and through.

[Gink]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 4:47pm

It was dreadful--my high school did a better job. Bill Irwin's Kids was bizare--it was like he was having seizures and suffering from strange ticks while he was singing. I liked his part during the Ed Sullivan show much better, but Kids was painful.

[lovebwy]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 5:10pm

Does anyone agree with me that (a couple of moments aside) the original movie is pretty much DOA?

[darquegk]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 5:12pm

I think Birdie exists in sort of a weird liminal space- it's hard to decide how much to take as "sign of the times" and how much as winking satire.

The central conceit that rock and roll, and rock stars, are going to be a passing fad relegated to the very young and naive may have seemed like a topical joke in the early Sixties, but now it plays as irony- look at the time when we still thought that dance-band music and crooners might STILL conquer rock and roll after all.

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 5:48pm

I absolutely loved it!

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 5:52pm

How anyone could say BYE BYE BIRDIE should have never made it to Broadway is absolutely beyond me. Broadway guy, you just continue to out-do yourself with these comments.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/7/13 at 6:22pm

Bye Bye Birdie is a brilliantly written musical from top to bottom. There is not one show in the world that is immune from looking shabby by a poorly directed, poorly performed, and poorly produced revival. But the idea that Bye Bye Birdie should never have been on Broadway is ludicrous.