Minute-ish Musicals - Bye Bye Birdie

…Gentlemen, the democracy is over! Parliament has been dissolved; the Magna Carta is revoked, and Birdie is back in town!
Bye Bye Birdie
Music by Charles Strouse
Lyrics by Lee Adams
Book by Michael Stewart
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[@Paul-cb1or]

I highly expect the plot came from when Elvis was drafted into the army. I think they need to remake this movie and call it "Bye Bye Bieber" In stead of the army have Beiber Cryogenically frozen with Miley Cyrus as the mad scientist promising eternal fame and fortune. The Kardashians as the sidekicks to Cyrus, and Tom Cruise as the MI agent that rescues Bieber slightly frozen below the waist and will forever be known as Justin Stiffy. Don't bother me I am writing the screenplay.

[@tippingtophat4012]

i was going to right a hate comment and then i saw the kardashians and miley cyrus so i knew it was a joke.

[@benjaminwambeke9458]

I'm cast as Hugo in our high school version (I had no idea how different the stage and movie versions were, I don't sing once :0) but I'm super pumped. It's pretty much the perfect role for me.

[@louiscaruso4167]

"He goes all Adderall on the Russian Ballet" One of the best movie/musicals.

[@hauntsandamusements]

Can you do a video like this of The Phantom of The Opera and Les Miserables? Also, Jekyll and Hyde?

[@mmtittle]

You should do more of these! They're all hilarious.

[@whatdoyousuppose]

Love it! First saw this movie in middle school choir class, we even had a test on it haha. I think I was the only one to get a perfect score, as most kids in this choir class only took it for the easy A and didn't actually sing at all or put in effort...yeah. Also loving the Doctor Who reference! :)

[@MusicalMash]

DoctorWhoBAMF I would be the biggest fanboy for a Doctor Who musical. Really, I'd just enjoy a great big "kickline" of daleks. Plus the singing? Dalek singing? Scratch that. I just want a musical performed only by daleks.

[@whatdoyousuppose]

I am totally on board with that. BBC (or anybody really) make it happen!

[@icepickramone4699]

I looove Paul Lynde

[@megrocha3406]

*clap clap clap clap clap clap*

[@MusicalMash]

Meggie R *bows* Be sure to tip your waiters!

[@jukurabbit]

Musical Theatre Mash In event of no waiter, remember to tip your Mr. Mystery.

[@TheatreGeek491]

I literally have just found your channel but I'm already in love! your videos are amazing!

[@MusicalMash]

TheatreGeek491 Hey, thanks!

[@BetteDavis19]

I was just in this. PSD is so real right now.

[@ABCD-bp7nh]

+BoggessBroadway I just finished doing Children of Eden. PSD is the worst. Especially when you're in high school and almost all of the people you actually like are seniors and they're all leaving forever

[@lizzyplays2964]

I'm in this play at my highschool

[@JaylukKhan]

I just watched this movie for the first time today with no context or expectations. It's... I don't even know, It's just so many things.

[@healthyholemealbread]

My favourite song from the Broadway cast recording is Spanish rose - it’s so mad what they did with changing the ethnicity of the character completely

[@ceventom]

I love these! please do more :)

[@ambidextra_ambidextra]

i was first galvanised to see this when , i think it was Premiere magazine's imaginary movie critic Libby Gelman-Waxner(or someone on Premiere anyway) described Ann Margaret's rendition of the title song as going beyong camp and into the realms of some sort of transcendental dementia. I was not disappointed.( well , not by her performance of the song, the movie's just ???!!!!!)

[@canigetanfinchat]

Omigod! I died from the Dotor Who refrence, my life consists of Doctor Who and musicals

[@Elainerulesutube]

When this movie came out in 1963, no one hsd heard of Dr.Who, so what are you on about? Where exactly is this reference in this movie?

[@hannahchristina7771]

I just got casted as Kim,and i'm so excited

[@vickiechandler3112]

i am never going to hear her sing that song any other way....LOL

[@yvonneplant9434]

Ann-Margaret on last Sunday's CBS' Sumday Morning. And Bobby Rydell dying yesterday. Sigh...

[@stormcloudsabound]

bye bye bir-he!

[@darkstorm3468]

I'm doing a musical today through Sunday (my time) on bye bye birdie..

[@thesweetnotes]

In this movie ...if i were ever to pick a character like me...I'm the sticker on the wall waiting for it all to be over. Watching quietly. Like ....a sticker. ... -_-

[@geekywisdom261]

I had the biggest crush on Anne Margaret from this movie. XD

[@tombennett3827]

geekywisdom I had a big crush on Maureen Stapleton.

[@stanconnorstan4266]

The movie is awful compared to the Broadway version. It is better in every way possible with so many more fun musical numbers and scenes with more coherence and more Rosie

[@lonelyforestfae]

Exactly!!!!!! The movie version is god awful and is nothing like the musical! So many things were left out or added in or changed in the movie. Now that I'm so used to the musical since I'm currently in it, this video make me hella uncomfortable

[@jellycube6824]

I thought it was interesting that u didn’t really mention Ursula Mrs macafee or Randolph but thinking about it if you took their characters out of the show nothing would really change

[@laraklein8335]

Once you notice Ann Margret singing Bye Bye Birhee you can't unnotice it anymore and it irritates me.

[@skylerclyne6542]

Our school just put this on and they had to cut the Shriner scene. That being said they also cut out Kim's cigarette in the Ice House... I go to a small school..

[@markmorehouse2505]

You know, ever time I've watched this movie, I kept thinking, "I must have heard her wrong." I always thought maybe she said "Bird-hee", so at least the "D" was in there, trying to fight off the invading "H". So I'm glad someone else heard "Bur-hee" besides me. I wonder why she chose to sing it that way? Maybe the director wanted her to sound a little breathless about her idol?

[@griffin1837]

yeah, she’s supposed to sound desperate and sad

[@artism9780]

Ann Margret saying Bye Bye Birdie sounds like Bugs Bunny saying “Boi Boi Boirthee”

[@dulcineazulueta8845]

That Doctor Who reference.

[@Elainerulesutube]

Where exactly is this reference?

[@adrianschagerl4486]

@@Elainerulesutube 4:35 Fez's are cool

[@petabulmer3317]

The "Bye bye Burr-hee" thing has always bothered me, in spite of my loving this movie!

[@zequeecho]

so the burgee thing?...Is it...singing pronunciation? or... did they tell her to skip the d in the word? This is haunting me. Does she pronounce any other words weirdly? I mean this musical has already given me enough headaches (my brother and sister would sing the Conrad fan theme until I left rooms) and I just need to know

[@shawnmulligan2894]

Ze QueEcho At least from my singing experience, it's kind of hard to switch directly from a held out r to a significantly lowered d and then continue singing normally. I sat and tried it for 20 minutes and only got it slightly on key once.

[@anartistparadise7914]

Actually, she's from Sweden and had trouble pronouncing Birdie.

[@griffin1837]

Ze QueEcho it shows her desperation and sadness, if you look at the reprise where she’s happy with conrad leaving, she pronounces it well

[@simeonrice6047]

Well. At least the stageplay was good.

[@melodydyk6170]

Kim's number at the top of her card was almost 24601

[@user-kw7mr6xt9n]

Melody Dyk AND IM JAVERT

[@CarlieMae]

We did Bye, Bye Birdie a few years ago and I didn't even try out because this musical just grinds my gears. I just can't stand it and the weirder thing is, I don't know why. I just don't like it.

[@jackarmstrong7516]

P

[@MnMsandOreos]

I both love and hate Ursula. She's soooooo annoying!!! Her over expressive acting is awful!! But also sometimes I love it??

[@lonelyforestfae]

As someone who is currently in a production of the musical, the movie version is UGH! Ahhh whyyyy? Some of the songs are in scenes they shouldn't be in and it's just so much more confusing than the musical, which is already Bella confusing. And why is telephone hour suddenly that fast? What the heck. That actually made me laugh quite a bit. The movie is so fricken different and I hate it since I'm so used to the musical version haha.

[@jthodges4741]

Right? I just finished my run as Conrad, I feel ya

[@AndrielleHillis]

I actually think Albert is waaaay more likeable in the movie. And I actually think the movie has a better flow as far as events are concerned.

[@robloxmusicalproductionsjg6268]

*hey gays whats up*

[@robloxmusicalproductionsjg6268]

*i mean guys*

[@tashinewland8792]

I like the 1995 version better. The only highlight inn this one was Dick

[@Elainerulesutube]

What do they mean by "bring your rubbers with you"?

[@BadWebDiver]

galoshes.

[@bcbock]

The movie is TERRIBLE. The bit about he speed up formula to speed up the orchestra? WOW. Hello 1960s. The ABC TV movie with Jason Alexander was much better, although I do love Dick Van Dyke.

[@markmorehouse2505]

So that formula isn't in the stage version? I never knew. I missed the TV version.

[@tippingtophat4012]

the full thing is on YT, check it out. You can also see around 20 minutes of the original broadway show!

[@Elainerulesutube]

Jason Alexander version was terrible. I hated it!