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NBC sets 'Bye Bye Birdie' as 2017 live musical; Jennifer Lopez to star

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NBC’s 2017 live holiday musical presentation: Bye Bye Birdie, which will star Jennifer Lopez as Rosie.

NBC Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt just made the announcement at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills. This will be NBC’s fifth consecutive live musical, following The Sound of Music, Peter Pan, The Wiz, and the upcoming Hairspray.

Lopez also will executive produce the live presentation, with Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Craig Zadan and Neil Meron. Universal Television will produce with Lopez’s Nuyorican Productions, Storyline and Sony Pictures Television.

Harvey Fierstein is writing the teleplay adaptation. NBC’s Bye Bye Birdie Live! will be based on the 1960 Tony Award-winning Broadway musical that starred Dick Van Dyke as Albert Peterson (earning Van Dyke a Tony) and Chita Rivera as Rosie (earning Rivera a Tony nomination). The book was by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.

The 1963 film adaptation starred Van Dyke and Janet Leigh, and catapulted newcomer Ann-Margret to stardom in the role of Birdie-obsessed teen Kim MacAfee.

Set at the height of rock ’n’ roll, Bye Bye Birdie is set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where hip-thrusting music heartthrob Conrad Birdie is scheduled to give a lucky Sweet Apple lady “One Last Kiss” before being drafted into the Army. Conrad’s rock ’n’ roll ways give the local teens a bad case of Birdie fever, shocks their parents, and puts songwriter/agent Peterson along with his savvy sweetheart, Rosie, in the thick of it. The story was inspired by Elvis Presley mania, and his 1957 induction into the Army.
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https://deadline.com/2016/10/nbc-bye-bye-birdie-live-musical-holiday-1201844187/
 
Who will replace Ann-Margret's "father", Paul Lynde? His was the best character in the show.

And how will the dancing scenes be re-choreographed? I don't see that silly dancing going anywhere with today's youths.
 
NBC to screw up another classic musical. What a shame. ABC's made for TV version was very good - starring Jason Alexander, Vanessa Williams and George Wendt (as the father). The movie version screwed up the Broadway show, too. Just like the movie version of Grease! screwed up the show. And NBC will probably try to adapt the screwed up movie into a more screwed up TV show.
 
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