Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Schuyler
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#1Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/21/10 at 8:24pm
Does anyone know who was in this touring production?
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/21/10 at 8:28pmTommy Tune
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Joined: 12/31/69
#2Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/21/10 at 9:00pmNo, he was in Bye Bye Birdie. I believe Tunney Tom was in Bye Bye Bridie.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#3Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/21/10 at 9:03pmOh, then I don't know.
#4Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/21/10 at 11:21pmTommy Tune & Ann Reinking, with Marilyn Cooper as Mae (with a song added for her during the San Francsisco run) and Marc Kudisch as Conrad.
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#5Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 12:02amMan...what happened to Tommy Tune??? Did he lose his mind or what?
#6Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 12:09amSusan Egan (original Belle on Bway) was on the tour as well. She was Kim. If you google "Marc Kudisch Official Website" the first site that comes up is his site. He has videos up from the production, "A Lot of Living", and "Honestly Sincere", if I remember correctly.
#7Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 8:27amI saw this production at the Forrest in Philadelphia in the early 1990's and thoroughly enjoyed it. Strouse & Adams wrote a new song for Tommy Tune: "Take A Giant Step" which came off well. Ann Reinking danced up a storm in the Shriners ballet. And the late Marilyn Cooper brought down the house with her comic delivery of Mae Peterson's lines. Supposedly, Tune did not bring it into NYC because it was a revival and not an original musical: Tune's own standard for being associated with a show.
#8Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 9:08amMarc Kudisch was at his pinnacle in this production.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#9Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 10:13am
1991 US Tour:
Directed by Gene Saks
Sets by Peter Larkin
Costumes by Robert Mackintosh
Hair by Robert DiNiro
Lighting by Peggy Eisenhauer
Musical Direction by Michael Biagi
Choreography by Edmond Kresley (a member of the original 1960 cast and later an assistant to Gower Champion -- director & choreographer of the original 1960 Broadway production)
THE CAST:
Albert Peterson: Tommy Tune
Rose Alvarez: Ann Reinking (later Lenora Nemetz)
Conrad Birdie: Marc Kudisch
Kim MacAfee: Susan Egan
Hugo Peabody: Steve Zahn (yes, THAT Steve Zahn)
Ursula: Jessica Stone
Mae Peterson: Marilyn Cooper
Also in the cast: Belle Calaway, Dale O'Brien and Joey Hannon.
#10Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 10:36am
Marc and his hotness in the Bye Bye Birdie tour ...
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BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#11Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 11:13am
Tommy Tune: 
Susan Egan & Steve Zahn: 
VIDEO:
"Honestly Sincere" - Marc Kudisch & the 1991 US Tour cast of BYE BYE BIRDIE: https://marckudisch.freakymartian.com/flv.php?vid=sinceretour
"A Lot of Livin' to Do" - Marc Kudisch, Susan Egan & the 1991 US Tour cast of BYE BYE BIRDIE: https://marckudisch.freakymartian.com/flv.php?vid=livintour
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Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#12Bye Bye Bridie Tommy Tune
Posted: 5/22/10 at 11:27am
I also thought Marc was great, and really hot, in the 95 TV version, despite being only a year and a half older (and at some points actually looking younger) than his Kim (a terribly miscast Chynna Phillips). And even making Kim 17 rather than 15 didn't help. Chynna was already looking older than she actually was as is.
For all that that version did wrong, at least they got Conrad right.
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