TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
willrogers2008
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/08
#1TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:30pmI suppose a lot of members saw it. How was the show? Thank you in advance for your impressions.I would like to know the differences between ROUNDABOUT production and this legendary (I guess was the first major revival in the Country) production.
#2re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:35pm
"Rosie"
http://www.bluegobo.com/production.php?var=200015172&mode=P&vid=0
"Spanish Rose"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoMbqGBlCz8
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#2re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:42pmThat's what having real stage presence looks like.
#3re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:44pmBlaxx, Gershon paid many doctors many dollars to get that "stage presence".
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#4re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:45pmI wish she could have gone to Piven's doctor. She'd be in Thailand by now.
willrogers2008
Featured Actor Joined: 12/9/08
#5re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 5:50pmThank you so much for the clip Mildred !
#6re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:42pm
honestly sincere:
https://marckudisch.freakymartian.com/flv.php?vid=sinceretour
a lot of livin:
https://marckudisch.freakymartian.com/flv.php?vid=livintour
strelimyn
Stand-by Joined: 9/17/06
#7re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 6:53pmWhy helloooo there, Mister Kudisch. Hello there, indeed.
#8re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 7:16pmHe's in the remake film too.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#9re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:02pm
Kudisch's "Honestly Sincere" live is/was INSANE!
Oh. My. GOD!
#10re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:23pmI loved it. I was 12 but I loved it
#11re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:26pmIs Reinking channeling a still alive Eartha Kitt in Spanish Rose?
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#12re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:32pmNow, THAT'S the way Birdie SHOULD be played -- every man, woman and in-beteern was creaming in their you-know-whats when Kudish did that number. I'll NEVER forget him in those skin-tight gold pants. And he had personality and he could sing the s__t out of it.
#13re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 8:56pmDoes Nolan have a facebook? Quick, someone paste those Marc vids on his wall
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#14re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:07pmThat would be incredibly cruel. The people who cast Funk in the role are the ones who should see those videos.
#15re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 9:13pmUg, the soundtrack to the 1995 telefilm is NOT on iTunes.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#17re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/8/09 at 10:25pmNot to nitpick, but it made no difference whether the tour had an ugly set or not -- it was the joy of the show that made it so special. If you were to put me to the firing squard, I couldn't even REMEMBER the sets. But, oh those performances! The afore-mentioned Marc Kudish, Tommy Tune and wonderful, wonderful Marilyn Cooper. Musical comedy heaven, light though it may be.
Dolly_Levi
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/8/04
#18re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:25am
Now that's a sexy, dangerous Conrad Birdie.
How old is Kudisch there?
#19re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 12:26pm
I saw this tour. Overall, it was pretty lackluster with only Marc Kudisch and a hilarious Steve Zahn (as Hugo Peabody) as the only real standouts. Ann Reinking just couldn't handle the vocals and Tommy Tune was just altogether too fey.
Damn, Kudisch is hot. (On a personal note, I got to work with him shortly after this tour at NSMT in Phantom with Kristin Chenoweth. He definitely continued to be hot.)
#20re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:15pm
I drove to Philadelphia to see the Tommy Tune BYE BYE BIRDIE at the beautiful Forrest theatre where I had seen Barbara Cook in the pre-Broadway tour of PLAIN & FANCY in the early 1950's. BIRDIE was very good. I enjoyed the added song for Tommy Tune, "Take a Giant Step". The actor playing Harry MacAfee was not very good, not capitalizing on that character's priceless lines. But it was Marilyn Cooper who stole the show in a bravura performance. Mae Peterson has the funniest lines in the show. Altogether, a hit. The Roundabout production sounds pretty awful. I am going to FINIAN'S RAINBOW instead, when I come to NYC in December.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#21re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 1:17pm
The Kudisch is STILL HOT everyone here on BWW knows that. Damn he can sure shake that @ss in that clip!! Hands down the best Birdie I have EVER seen.
Sorry grandpa, didn't get to see Dick Gautier I wasn't even conceived yet so he's out of the loop as far as I'm concerned.
As far as Reinking's clip is concerned it was LACKLUSTER. She has seen better days on a stage and that one definitely wasn't one of them. Tommy Tune on the other hand is a little light on his loafers in EVERYTHING he does.
Updated On: 10/9/09 at 01:17 PM
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#22re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 9:18pm
Bianca should be Rose... end of story!
Bianca Marroquin's turn as Rose!
Updated On: 10/9/09 at 09:18 PM
#23re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 9:28pmWas there no audience?
Flaunt It
Broadway Star Joined: 10/26/05
#24re: TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE
Posted: 10/9/09 at 10:24pmNo.. if you look at any of NSMT's videos they are shot at rehearsals.
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