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The website's consensus reads: "A poppy satire on pop music, Bye Bye Birdie is silly, light, and very, very pink." [ 14 ] According to Filmink Ann-Margret "stole the show". [ 15 ] Wanda Hale of the New York Daily News gave the comedy a full four-star rating and said it "bubbles over with the vitality of youth and the fun of farce as it creates a teenage furor over a hip-twisting, leering rock ...
Apr 25, 2011 · A chance encounter got Ann-Margret her role in 'Bye Bye Birdie,' the 1963 musical that made ... The musical is a satire based on Elvis Presley’s induction into the Army. ... Good news! The Mark ...
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And look, there’s not much arguing about what “Birdie” is selling: This is a show that (with the lightest glaze of loving satire) hymns the notion of the “healthy, normal American boy ...
Feb 21, 2016 · A review of the 1963 musical/comedy starring Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret. Synopsis: American teenage girls are devastated when singing sensation Conrad Birdie is drafted. However the national "tragedy" turns into an opportunity for a struggling songwriter when his fiancee makes arrangements for him to write a song that Birdie will perform ...
I don’t know if Bye Bye Birdie was ever a good musical, although the stage version won the Tony for best musical for its year, but the film certainly has gusto. Inspired by Elvis being called up by the army, here teen sensation Conrad Birdie is called up; publicist Rosie Deleon (Janet Leigh) cajoles Ed Sullivan into having Birdie on his show before leaving for the army, where he will sing ...
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Dec 1, 1995 · It’s essentially a satire of Elvis Presley — ’50s rock sensation Conrad Birdie (Marc Kudisch) is about to go into the Army — but Bye Bye Birdie captures the liberating joy of early rock ...
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Sep 29, 2024 · The website's consensus reads: "A poppy satire on pop music, Bye Bye Birdie is silly, light, and very, very pink." [14] According to Filmink Ann-Margret "stole the show". [15] Wanda Hale of the New York Daily News gave the comedy a full four-star rating and said it "bubbles over with the vitality of youth and the fun of farce as it creates a teenage furor over a hip-twisting, leering rock 'n ...
