Bye Bye Birdie Tour?

[Jyn326]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 6:11pm

My local paper (in Kentucky) announced our theatre's 2008-2009 Broadway season. Bye Bye Birdie is planned for April 2009. Does anybody know of any information for this tour? I tried searching the boards and the internet and couldn't find anything. Is it just too soon for information to be floating around?

[FIERCEY516]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:03pm

1) why would it be a tour if it's on Broadway

2) I don't think it's possible to accurately "announce" the '09 season.

3) I believe plans for a revival have been scratched...

[jv92]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:43pm

Fierece- As far as I know, Roundabout is still planning to revive Birdie. It's been workshoped to death there, but Birdie and Golden Boy are the two Strouse shows in the works for revival, though Golden Boy isn't attactched to Roundboat as far as I know.

Jyn- Is your community theatre called The Broadway Players or something? Maybe they're going to perform it? Your paper could had made some sort of error, maybe?

[phantomo88]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 8:50pm

Windwood Productions will tour Birdie 08-09 season.

[jv92]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:04pm

That makes sense.

[Jyn326]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:06pm

jv92- no it's not a local community group performance. The theatre is The Riverpark Center. Usually has non-equity tours. It's built several shows at the theatre that go on to tour the country (42nd Street, The Producers, etc) In the paper they said that they'll be building Frost/Nixon starring Stacy Keach, and it's the first show of the '08-'09 season. The other shows announced are The Pajama Game, ... Spelling Bee, and I forgot the other 2 at the moment. It's always possible that they made a mistake, but they usually don't announce stuff like that unless it's official.

phantomo99- thanks for that. I googled their website and it they had a bit of information.

[phantomo88]

Posted: 3/31/08 at 9:41pm

This is OT, but...

It really pisses me off how Owensboro and Pahducah have larger and more modern theatres then Lexington. The Opera House is a historic building, but it is not suited to the shows a city like lexington should be getting. Even the shows they are getting now have to be nearly sold out to make a profit, the theatre is so small.

[Jyn326]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 8:57am

phantomo- is that true? I would've thought Lexington had better ones. I don't think Owensboro takes advantage of it's own theatre as well as it could. I've been so jealous of my cousin who lives in Lexington, it doesn't forgo the arts just to support UK basketball or whatever. We're more of a 'sports' town (in high schools and colleges), neglecting the arts. She goes to the school of performing arts up there and was recently in elaborate productions of Cats and Beauty and the Beast. My high school didn't even have a drama club or class my last three years.

I usually have to travel a good distance if I want to see any decent tours. That's why I'm so excited about Bye Bye Birdie being here. Louisville usually has some good shows come through, as well.

[Amneris]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 11:20am

I hope this tour is better than the one with Tune and Reinking.

[phantomo88]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 12:08pm

Lexington's Opera House is beautiful, but it only seats 1,027, compaired to Owensboro's 1479, and Pahducah's 1806. And you also get Broadway shows in Evansville and Henderson. Here are some pics of Lex:

http://flickr.com/photos/rupparena/2368070745/
http://flickr.com/photos/rupparena/2368126305/
http://flickr.com/photos/rupparena/2368097729/


Compare that to Owensboro:



and Pahducah:

[phantomo88]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 2:37pm

Oh, and ashland has a 1417 seater.
Updated On: 4/1/08 at 02:37 PM

[Brave Sir Robin2]

Posted: 4/1/08 at 3:04pm

I remember in 2005 that there was going to be a pre-Broadway tour that was going to play the Pantages in Los Angeles. That never happened.

[Jyn326]

Posted: 4/2/08 at 11:34am

wow, Paducah has a beautiful theatre. I think I've been to The Opera House actually. That may be where Beauty and the Beast was.

OT: were those your pictures from the Queen thing? That's a tribute band, right? I've recently become a big fan of Queen. It's fun to see something related to music I like (Queen) on a site for something else I love (Broadway). (I'm easily amused, haha)

[nyc1870]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 12:31am

So is this production an original that this company is doing?

[broadwayfan7]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 12:49am

Wow! That theatre is gorgeous!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 4/3/08 at 2:32am

The first one is boring looking though. I don't like when there are no sides like that. Reminds me of the Golden in NYC.