Productions1 on Broadway
| 1981 | Martin Beck Theatre Original. March 5, 1981 · Joe Layton | 4 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Tams-Witmark | available |
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In the literature30 passages
short-lived 1981 sequel, Bring Back Birdie (also with Donald O’Connor). book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p183
Strouse and Adams’s last Broadway collaboration was a sequel to their first show, Bye Bye Birdie. Its name was Bring Back Birdie (3/5/81; 4 performances), and again Michael Stewart contributed the book and Chita Rivera starred. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p529
Thereafter, it was all downhill for Layton, with the quick failure of Bring Back Birdie, a show that seemed like a mistake to everyone in New York save the producers, Rock and Roll: the First 5,000 Years (a show ahead of its time), The Three Musketeers, and Harrigan and Hart. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p305
She went into semiretirement after the stage version of Gigi and Goa’s Favorite, coming out only to play the Kay Medford role in the ill-fated sequel Bring Back Birdie, and the Queen opposite her beloved husband in the New York City Opera production of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s Cinderella. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p336
Bring Back Birdie (1981), an ill-fated sequel to Bye Bye Birdie. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p44
But how often can the same high school do Bye Bye Birdie before the local parents throw their hands over their ears in collective horror at that first caterwauling “We love you, Conrad”? So Tams’s Louis Aborn called the authors for a sequel, just for amateurs. What's the harm, ‘long as nobody sees it? Enter suburban te… book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p131
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