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#26

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

animosity between John Stamos and Bobby Flatbottom


Dollypop--that comment is BENEATH you.
#27

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

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.


If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.
#28

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

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.
#29

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

Does anyone agree with me that (a couple of moments aside) the original movie is pretty much DOA?
#30

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

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.
#31

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

I absolutely loved it!
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-
#32

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

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.
#33

BYE BYE BIRDIE Revival Questions

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.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

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