TOMMY TUNE'S BYE BYE BIRDIE — Page 2

I loved Tommy Tune's Bye Bye Birdie. Marc Kudisch was so right as Conrad. Steve Zahn as Hugo was a standout too. Marilyn Cooper was a perfect Mae. Same with Susan Egan as Kim, and Jessica Stone (Frenchie!!) as Ursula. Ann Reinking was a very different Rose, I just didn't care for her vocals. Tommy Tune was fine, I adore his showmanship. Is that right to say? A true showman.
I remember an eye-popping Telephone Hour with the teens in either pjs or towels or something like that. They all looked hot. but in my souvenir brochure, they're [fully]clothed. I saw it in Tampa.

I've seen three Conrads - Kudisch, Pearson, and Funk. Kudisch was the best of the three. Funk was boring and I found Pearson's lisp to be distracting

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To bk,

The grandpa comment wasn't meant for you. It was a generalization. If I am addressing you in a particular post you will see your name in it. Everything isn't about you but if you have a complex please seek some professional help and don't take it out on me.

Thank you and have a very blessed day.

"To bk,

The grandpa comment wasn't meant for you. It was a generalization. If I am addressing you in a particular post you will see your name in it. Everything isn't about you but if you have a complex please seek some professional help and don't take it out on me.

Thank you and have a very blessed day."

I consider every day a blessed day. And it doesn't matter who the grandpa comment was directed at or whether it was a generalization. It was rude and unnecessary. As was the tone of the post I quote above. But, this is Broadwayworld, a place overrun with the occasional rude infant. And since I was the only one who mentioned Mr. Gautier and since you saw that post in another thread and since no one has mentioned Mr. Gautier in this thread - who else would you have been addressing your comment to? Go to your room and say 100 Hail Marys and maybe you, too, can have a blessed day wherein you don't act like a rude twit.

Updated On: 10/10/09 at 05:05 PM

I wasn't addressing my comment to you bk so GET OVER YOURSELF.

NEWS FLASH:

THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU!!!

Now why don't YOU go sit in a corner and contemplate that for awhile.

Be nice to Bruce Kimmel!

i think tommy tune is fine, so long as albert is considered rosie's gal pal and not her fiance.

Bianca should be Rose... end of story!

HOLY CRAP, Rob Petrie! Bianca looks and sounds like Mary Tyler Moore.

It would be insane to superimpose her footage over vintage footage of Dick Van Dyke during his run in the original 1960 Broadway production. Extensive footage exists from The Ed Sullivan Show.

I agree that Ann Reinking doesn't have the best vocals for Rosie, but I love to watch her move! She's flawless....

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I just remember taking my niece to see this production when she was a little girl. It was her first professionally staged musical and it made her a lifetime Broadway fan. For that reason alone it was a HUGE winner.

It was mine as well and that's what happened to me.

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Was that Susan Egan playing Kim in the clip? Whoever it was she sounded great.

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I like Reinking, but not as Rosie. Her Spanish Rose was nowhere near as effective as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdOn4FvpWpE

I saw this at the Muny in St. Louis. My recollection of it was that they used some girls from the local dance academies as chorus members. I was there on opening night and my date knew one of the girls. When they first appeared on stage you could hear everyone whispering stuff like, "She's the second from the left," or "She's the one in the pink sweater." Every one of these girls' friends and family were there. When they finished their big number at the train station the audience went wild cheering. Tommy Tune even broke character and clapped for them. I may be wrong about the details of why they were in the cast, but I do remember that there were alot of local girls up there.