Bye Bye Birdie Soundtrack? — Page 2

The movie soundtrack is awesome though, Ann-Margret is the best Kim McAfee ever!!


Really? You think Kim should be a sex kitten?

Please be kidding...

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They did indeed extend, and, if memory serves me well, they announced the extention the same day the (relatively negative) reviews came out. Then, of course, when they realized they had exhausted their subsriiption base, and word of mouth had killed this weak production, they had to pull back the closing date. I don't think it had much to do with John Stamos not extending, as I believe there could have been a number of "name" actors that would have easily been better AND as big of a draw.

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I mean this in all seriousness (because I do enjoy Ann-Margret (no second a) and usually most of the bad movie musicals), but by voice and persona, do you mean smokey and big boobs...cause not a lot of acting was goin on there.

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"It's sad that so many shows aren't making it."

If you think it's so sad then feel free to give all of those shows the thousands upon thousands of dollars needed to create, record, market, and distribute the CAST RECORDINGS (What are "soundtracks"?).

There....Problem solved! Now we just need to cover your boxers and I'll be all set.

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Susan Watson, who originated the role of Kim MacAfee in the 1960 production, was 22 at the time. Ann-Margret was the same age, 22 when she played the role in the 1963 film version. Chynna Phillips was 27 when she played Kim in the incredibly boring 1995 TV remake. None of these actresses looked or acted 16 and were not required or directed to be so in their performances. Allie Trimm, 15, who plays Kim in the present production, is the first actress who is close to the character's real age and based on what I saw and heard, is the worst singer and least convincing of the four. In fact, except for being enormously more beautiful than Watson, Ann-Margret played Kim very close to the way Watson did on stage in the production I saw with two exceptions. The opening and closing "Bye Bye Birdie" song, which was not in the stage version, and most notably in "Gotta Lot of Livin' To Do", where director George Sidney clearly departs from credibility and displays Ann-Margret's sexiness in a way that was not in character for a 16 year old, at least not a 16 year old in 1963. This was probably willfully done to capitalize on Ann-Margret's real sexy persona in the hope of increasing the film's box office potential and the film of Bye Bye Birdie was a gigantic hit, one of the biggest of its time. I agree that Ann-Margret is the best singer to ever perform the role on any recording of the score.

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O my gosh tom (claude hooper), she wasn't THAT bad...well she kind of was, but I don't care. Allie Trim was awesome too, and the poster who commented on it was right, she did act the closest to the actual age.

And to the person w/ The Office profile picture: Was there really a need to be bitchy? I mean come on, even the people I meet on IMDB don't lash out like that...I don't understand the necessity to be mean just for the sake of being mean.

How are my thoughts not composed? I said it was sad that shows weren't lasting, but I never insulted or condemned BBB for not putting out a cast recording (sorry about saying soundtrack, like I said, I'm a newbie). You just kind of jumped on me for something I never implied.

IMDB has the same message board set-up, that's where my comparison came from. I agree with what you're saying...but I wasn't being ignorant, I was being attacked for something that I never said and then again for my clothing. It just seems unnecessary to fight and snap at each other, clearly it's a pet peeve of mine.

I have met some people that have disagreed w/ me intelligently though. For instance, on another board someone corrected me on saying soundtrack instead of cats recording when I got all worked up about being corrected for it.

Okay, thanks.

Well I'm just going to segway out of this and say that if I don't find some version of Nolan's "Honestly Sincere" and "One Last Kiss" I'm going to go crazy.

Why thank you...I guess.

One is left to ponder what the BBB movie would have been like if they went with their original choice for Kim: Loretta Swit.

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Probably, but unless I'm totally misinformed it's also a completely random conversation changer and/or diversion that I use to get out of trouble or awkward situations.

You mean segue.

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