Riedel on BIRDIE, Gershon and the one they call "Corky Sinclair"- Page 3

[Mildred Plotka]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 7:46pm

Very true Jordan. This one hits me really hard though. I hate that the wonderful book and score are somehow being blamed for the Roundabout's errors. It is such a wonderful show when done correctly. It doesn't need much. Just great performers and someone to guide them. I also don't get the playing of Albert as a nerd. The character never strikes me as such and I've never seen him played that way.

[babyuno]

Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:29pm

everyone keeps saying they got a audio or a bootleg of this play i want to know where they are getting it from, I am interested

[bk]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:26am

It's always fascinating to read these posts. Birdie should have smoldering sex appeal. I have two words for you - Dick Gautier. That's who played Conrad Birdie originally. A wonderful comic actor with about as much sex appeal as a tuna fish. Apparently, he was very funny - maybe that would help since this is a musical comedy. That said, Jesse Pearson, who did the tour and the film, does have both sex appeal and humor.

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:28am

An actual tuna fish would have been a better Birdie in this production.

Funk did NOT do it for me. At all.

[Marquise]

Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:31pm

I wholeheartedly disagree with you bk. I can't comment on Dick Gautier as I was not yet conceived when he was swiveling his hips on B'way but I can comment on Pearson's performance from the 1963 film version. Pearson had NO sex appeal as "Conrad Birdie" and came off as a mindless dork. Bobby Rydell and Dick Van Dyke had more sex appeal than he did...combined!
Updated On: 10/9/09 at 01:31 PM