"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! |
