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#75re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/19/07 at 1:31pmTalkinglips- welcome to the boards and thanks for posting that it went well. Any other details you feel comfortable sharing?
#76re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/19/07 at 1:34pmMatt Doyle played Hugo.
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#77re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/19/07 at 2:26pmIreally think that Stephaine D'Abruzzo would have been a better Rosie...or Bebe Newirth, but she may be too old.
"I saw Pavarotti play Rodolfo on stage and with his girth I thought he was about to eat the whole table at the Cafe Momus." - Dollypop
#79re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/19/07 at 7:00pm
Glad to see Block is a "fierce" Rosie but honestly she would have been the last person I'd have considered for the role of a "Spanish rose." I can't think of anyone whiter...maybe Kristin Chenoweth.
Neuwirth would have made a great Rosie 15 years ago.
If they were gonna hire a non-Latino actress (Natascia Diaz, Natalie Cortez, Mandy Gonzales) would have loved seeing Sutton Foster, Leslie Kritzer, or Laura Benanti over Block.
I hope she surprises me once the revival actually opens.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#80re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/20/07 at 7:08pm
Benjamin Walker? For those who said they never heard of him, he played Melchior in the 2005 Lincoln Center workshop of Spring Awakening. A looot of Spring Awakening alumnis! Benjamin, Matt, Skylar, & Remy?
So Skylar isn't attached to Feeling Electric/Next to Normal anymore? Interesting.
Kaitlin Hopkins <3, by the way. What a interesting cast. Sarah Hyland gettin' back in the game, Gavin Lee, Stephanie J. Block, etc...
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#82re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/20/07 at 7:26pmIf anyone's seen the pics of Vanessa Hudgens visiting Spring Awakening, she's wearing a Conrad Birdie shirt!
#83re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/20/07 at 7:30pm
oops. Yes, Inherit the Wind as well. Sorry, that was a major biggie I forgot there. 
#85re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/21/07 at 7:38pm
I saw the National tour of the Tommy Tune / Anne Reinking production at the Colonial in Boston in the mid 90s/ It was a great full on production that was, until half way thru the tour supposed to go to NY. It never did for reasons i dont know. Yes, its dated but its a fun show. I hope it gets a chance on Broadway again.
A young actress with Noel coward after a dreadful opening night performance said to him 'Well, i knew my lines backwards this morning!''
Noels fast reply was ''Yes dear, and thats exactly how you said them tonight'!'
Updated On: 8/21/07 at 07:38 PM
#86re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/23/07 at 3:22pmThis sounds wonderful. I agree, though, that Rosie should be played by a Latina actress. I mean, it's part of the role. There are plenty of roles for white women and very few written specifically for Latinas.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#87re: Bye Bye Birdie Workshop...
Posted: 8/23/07 at 5:37pmSounds great. I just saw this show for the first time this summer and it was great. We have a real latino playing that role of Rosie and she was just terrific. I hope this show does better for Block than Pirate Queen did, even though she was fantastic in the role.
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