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Bye Bye Birdie (1995)
Directed by Gene Saks
“Rock-and-roll icon Conrad Birdie is about to go into the Army, and plans are being made to arrange his final going-away concert.”
Comedy, Drama, Music, TV Movie · 2h 11m
In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.
Cast
Jason Alexander
Vanessa Williams
Chynna Phillips
Tyne Daly
Marc Kudisch
George Wendt
Sally Mayes
Blair Slater
Vicki Lewis
Crew
- Director
- Gene Saks
- Writer
- Michael Stewart
- Director of Photography
- Glen MacPherson
- Editor
- Eric Albertson
- Producer
- Tim Bell, J. Boyce Harman Jr.
Details
- Release date
- 1995-12-03
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Music, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- RHI, ABC