Bring Back Birdie

#1

Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:32pm

Now Before you jump on me for sugesting a Bye Bye Birdie Revivial. Let me say right now, I am not at all. Im asking If anyone knows anything About the mid 80's flop "Bring Back Birdie that was the sequal to bye bye birdie. Right Now Im playing Albert in my HS production and I was reading the liner notes of the soundtrack of "Bye Bye.." which mentioned with like 3 sentences of explanation this BBB sequal. Just to satisfy my own curiosity, whats the plot, which cherectors are back, hows the music. If anywone saw it and can somehow manage to give me some details I would really like to know

#2

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:33pm

WAKEFIELD POOLE! WAKEFIELD POOLE!

Come in Magruder, over!

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#3

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:40pm

It was so dreadful I forgot it immediately after I left the theater. You have to work HARD to make a show that bad!

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#4

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:43pm

Any show that features a musical number sung while sitting on the toilet and using rhythm "flush" is best forgotten ASAP.

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#5

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:46pm

Hmm, I always liked Bye Bye Birdie - I never heard of Bring Back Birdie though!

#6

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:48pm

To be fair, Mr. T, that WAS supposed to be a punk rock moment. A 1980 Broadway version of punk rock, but still.

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#7

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:50pm

punk=toilet

how SAT !

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#8

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 8:55pm

I will always cherish the other art given to our culture by Wakefield Poole.

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#9

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:19pm

when i saw the name of the thread, i thought, "Oh dear God..NOOOO...." lol

#10

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:22pm

When I read your post I though, "Oh, dear G-d! Bobby....NOOOOOOOO!...."

#11

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:40pm

I don't know about the revival but in my middle school version I played Mrs. MacAfee. It's such a fun show, Bye Bye Birdie. I mean it's old fashion but fun. Have fun playing Albert!

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#12

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:50pm

Here's a snipet from the liner notes of Bring Back Birdie (yes, I have the recording, I am THAT much of a show queen):

"It seems that Bridie disappeared eighteen years ago, and Albert has been offered twenty thousand dollars if he can track down his former client and get him to perform on a TV Grammy Award special along with other giant recording stars of yesterday. Albert has accepted the chanllenge, eager to return to the music business, and Rose is unhappy about it."

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#13

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:52pm

Doesn't sound THAT bad...

#14

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:53pm

yes you are a show queen lol. and thats awesome. but seriously what would compel them to write that? I almost want to see this. but come now only 20K? birdie was worth 50K in the fifties. interesting/ and yes I have been spending way to much time learning lines

#15

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 9:56pm

BRING BACK BIRDIE. Well, I saw it. Chris gives you the basic premise. Instead of Ed Sullivan it was the Grammy Awards. Instead of telephones it was television sets.

Not a happy experience.

Poor Donald O'Connor. Poor Chita Riviera. Poor audience.

31 Previews and 4 performances.
Opened 3/5/1981, at the Martin Beck.

Four days after SOPHISTICATED LADIES, and about 24 days before WOMAN OF THE YEAR.

Updated On: 1/12/05 at 09:56 PM

#16

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:37pm

Yes, it's a disaster, but not without some charms. The number that Mr. Tuttle refers to, "We Are Filth," was dropped after the first preview.

Still, I think "You Can Never Go Back," is pretty fun, and Rivera does work wonders with "I Like What I Do," (which featured strategic product placement that household product manufacturers would now kill for) and "Well, I'm Not!" "20 Happy Years" is also a nice opening number.

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#17

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 10:58pm

Have fun, I loved playing Albert when I did this show. Heard of "Bring Back Birdie," but never looked into it...from what I've read, why bother?

-Vincent

#18

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 11:13pm

I believe Jeb Brown was in this show.

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#19

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 11:21pm

Im playing Randolph in my production of Tripple B right now which is so fun. I love my part but i don't really like the show. I was never a fan. I can't imagine having a sequal. It doesn't really end on a note that there could be a sequal...

~Peace Out~

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#20

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/12/05 at 11:26pm

What is it with Strouse and making flop sequels? Has a sequel to a Broadway musical EVER been successful? Has any other composer ever even tried? The only one I can think of is "Let 'em eat Cake"

#21

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/13/05 at 2:06am

I had a lot of fun at Bring Back Birdie, despite its obvious flaws. Just like Let 'Em Eat Cake, it was a sequel to a light, fun show that turned the material into harsh, dark satire. Birdie gets signed to make an appearance on the Grammys, but when he tries getting back into performance shape by playing a club gig he gets booed off the stage. Everyone thinks he's washed up and he's embarrassed to appear on TV. In order to get out of his contract they pretend that he's dead. But once he's "dead" the whole country deems him a lost genius and he becomes more popular than ever.

#22

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/13/05 at 3:38am

it sounds gut wrenching

#23

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/13/05 at 5:53am

it sounds like the show belonged in the toilet...

#24

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/13/05 at 6:14am

"yes, I have the recording, I am THAT much of a show queen"

Right there with you Chris. I have the recording of "Legs Diamond." Now there's a clunker!!!

#25

re: Bring Back Birdie

Posted: 1/13/05 at 6:39am

my school right now is doing Bye Bye Birdie and Im playing Mrs. Merkle, I am having a lot of fun though some of it is cheezy its still a fun show to do

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