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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Posted by: theotherwasblue 12:51 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - Chazwaza 11:11 pm EDT 04/25/20 | |
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| I think either Disney Channel or Nickelodeon should do a modern adaptation of it. Could easily be brought up to date. | |
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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Last Edit: Chromolume 01:42 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:40 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - theotherwasblue 12:51 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
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| How could it be brought up to date? We no longer have the draft (the event that puts the whole story in motion), we're not in a war, and although there's always a "generation gap," the mores are very different now than in the 50's. (Let alone the whole concept of a random young high school girl being kissed by a hunky rock star on national TV would play very very differently now.) I think it works best left in its time period, otherwise it just wouldn't be Bye Bye Birdie anymore. | |
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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Posted by: theotherwasblue 02:08 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - Chromolume 01:40 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
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| a loose adaptation of it could very much be done with some bright eyed, fresh faced teen star. obviously, it wouldn’t be a direct adaptation with the war and draft, and that’s what writers are for. it wouldn’t be the Bye Bye Birdie everyone knows per se (and that might be for the best), but it could be fun. | |
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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 08:59 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - theotherwasblue 02:08 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
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| It wouldn’t be the Bye Bye Birdie everyone knows per se At which point I say - just write a new show instead, instead of sorta kinda not really doing the original one? |
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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 03:44 pm EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - Chromolume 08:59 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
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| "It wouldn’t be the Bye Bye Birdie everyone knows per se. At which point I say - just write a new show instead, instead of sorta kinda not really doing the original one?" Of course. If anyone were foolish enough to attempt to update BYE, BYE BIRDIE, it would have to so completely rewritten -- including the text and most of the songs -- that it would bear virtually no resemblance to the original. One could try to write a new show about a music phenomenon in the present day, sort of generally inspired by BIRDIE, but it would have to be an entirely new show with a new score and a new book. I may have mentioned this before, but I once came across a script of a very weird revisal of BIRDIE, presumably from the early or mid '60s, that centered not around an Elvis Presley-type character but around a group called "The Birdies," meant as a takeoff on the Beatles. Just from reading it, I thought that idea didn't work at all! |
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| re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not | |
| Posted by: TheOtherOne 02:38 pm EDT 04/26/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Music Man and WSS especially are masterpieces, BBB is not - Chromolume 08:59 am EDT 04/26/20 | |
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| It is so specifically rooted in a brief era in American culture, an era in which rock and roll was seen as a passing fad, that the only way to approach it would be as a period piece. Time has been kind to the Eisenhower presidency, but the era itself epitomizes what so many have tried to move on from. Is anyone nostalgic for it? Should they be? Would a black Birdie help? |
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