| "Bye Bye Birdie" overture | |
| Posted by: lanky 11:38 am EDT 06/26/19 | |
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| The thread on the WSS overture prompts me to pose this question to our resident expert historians: The OBC of "Birdie" presents an overture, which, if I recall correctly, was also used for the Encores! production. But didn't the original Broadway production begin with film clips of Birdie and fans, accompanied by (what I would call) incidental music that punched up the images? This so-called incidental music was included in the score TAMS sent out for a production I was in at Penn State in 1963. When was the overture on the recording put together? Was it ever used in the original B'way run of the show? Champion apparently liked to incorporate film clips and photo images into his productions. I think "Dolly!" originally was to open with a steroptican show in Dolly's home. And "The Happy Time" used photographic images during the first song, didn't it? |
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