Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast

[BobbyBubby]

Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#1

Posted: 11/23/07 at 5:50pm

for the upcoming, long overdue revival of one of my favorite musicals:

Albert: Christian Borle
Rosie: Andrea Burns
Kim: Mary Faber
Conrad: Andy Karl
Mr MacAfee: Kevin Chamberlin
Mae: Debra Monk

[Amneris]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#2

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:04pm

Conrad: Cheyenne Jackson or Austin runner up Danny
Mr MacAfee: Schuler H.
Kim: Lea Michele or Laura Osnes
Ursula: Me ha ha ha.. um, Alisan Fischer
Rosie: if she was older...Eden Espinosa but um, maybe Megan Mullally?
Albert: Matthew Broderick
Updated On: 11/23/07 at 06:04 PM

[nealb1]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#2

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:04pm

Bobby......sounds like great casting!!! Your thread from the other day....Mormans/Broadwayworld brought up some good points. I replied on it, but it looks like the thread is gone....???? I can't find it anywhere.
Updated On: 11/23/07 at 06:04 PM

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#3

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:09pm

Oh it's long gone nealb1, but its spirit lives on in nasty Pm's!

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#4

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:10pm

I'd hope they'd want a Spanish Rosie...

[AC126748]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#5

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:11pm

Mary Stuart Masterson or Merideth Patterson for Rosie, although I love your suggestion of Andrea Burns, Bobby.

"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe." -John Guare, Landscape of the Body

[nealb1]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#6

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:13pm

Bobby, glad to see that you're still on the board! I know that you were thinking of leaving. Not sure if you read my posting on the thread or not, before it was deleted...

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#7

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:18pm

Pm me, let's talk! I didn't see it!

They removed the Mormon advert quite quickly, so I'm happy.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#8

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:22pm

hmm, isn't Andrea Burns a little old for Christian Borle?

But Debra Monk as Mae would be perfect I agree. Especially if she gets to sing the song "A Mother doesn't matter anymore" from the tv version.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#9

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:24pm

I don't think there's much on an age difference. How about Natascia Diaz?

I'm sure they'll add that song. FSI!

[nealb1]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#10

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:30pm

Bobby, I just PM'd you on the Morman Thread that has since disappeared.

[jondouglas]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#11

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:32pm

How about this for casting.......Catherine Zeta-Jones as Rosie? I think that would be pretty cool.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#12

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:33pm

I doubt she'd take it. She a little too, um, stocky for Rosie.

[jondouglas]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#13

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:35pm

How about Jackie Hoffman for Mae?? Would you consider her? I love CZJ! She was pretty slim and trim in "Chicago." I think it's cool that she doesn't feel the need to be rail thin for Hollywood. A woman with curves is a good thing.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#14

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:38pm

HOffman would be great! Mae doesn't have to be large. Testa would be superb too.

[nealb1]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#15

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:40pm

Testa would be good as Mae...

[Mr Roxy]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#16

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:40pm

Cheyenne Jackson - Birdie

Poster Emeritus

[jondouglas]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#17

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:43pm

Yes...Cheyenne as Birdie would be inspired casting. I really enjoyed his performance in ALL SHOCK UP.

Bobby, glad you agree with Jackie H for Mae...she would be awesome.

[nealb1]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#18

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:45pm

Jon, I completely agree with you on Catherine Zeta Jones on not giving into the pressure of Hollywood to be so thin. She looks like she's supposed to look - a heathly, sexy woman with curves.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#19

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:48pm

I think Karl would bring more layers to Conrad. I'd like to see someone play it against type too. It always comes off as an Elvis impression, and I think the role can be so much more than that!

Testa would be great but that woman needs a lead already. Her performance in First Lady Suite is top on my list as the best I've ever seen.

Testa would be great in the Merman role in Call Me Madam!

[ljay889]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#20

Posted: 11/23/07 at 6:57pm

At this point I just want Rosie to be a real latin who can dance.

Monk would be a GREAT Mae. Though she probably wouldn't do it, I think LuPone would be a lot of fun as Mae.

And I bet Laura Osnes would have a great chance of getting Kim. Unless they want a real 16 year old.

[BobbyBubby]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#21

Posted: 11/23/07 at 7:03pm

Do you think Marshall will direct. I hope not. Her Birdie at Encores was not well received!

And I know she has a huge fanbase, but I'll tear my hair out if non-latin Karen Ziemba gets the role.

I don't know if Burns can dance, but Diaz would tear that floor up! She's amazing. Her work in Sweet Charity was Award-Worthy.

[jake6970]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#22

Posted: 11/23/07 at 7:27pm

I think Mary Faber is too old for Kim. I think Laura would actually be a good choice. Lea Michele would also but she might look a little too "ethnic". And by ethnic I mean she's gorgeous, but doesn't scream all american apple pie like Laura does or Jessica Grove did.
Updated On: 11/23/07 at 07:27 PM

[ChrisLovesShows]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#23

Posted: 11/23/07 at 7:37pm

OK, bear with me now. Janet Leigh played Rosie in the movie, so for the revival....Jamie Leigh Curtis!!!













kidding...
(sorry Bobby, I know you said realistic. OK, let me start thinking..)

"Do you know ChrisLovesShows?" "Yes. Why, yes he does!"

Updated On: 11/23/07 at 07:37 PM

[commasplice]

re: Your Ideal, Realistic Bye Bye Birdie Revival Cast#24

Posted: 11/23/07 at 7:54pm

Ooh, I'd LOVE to see Diaz as Rose. She was fantastic in Sweet Charity.

How about Mackenzie Mauzy as Kim? She's 19 or 20, I believe. She sang "The Glamorous Life (Film Version)" at Wall to Wall Sondheim a few years ago.