Talk:Bye Bye Birdie

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WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks: Help out with one of the WikiProject Musical Theatre tasks below. You may add your name to the Participants list to the right. edit this Open Tasks template Collaborate and work on the Collaboration of the Month Articles needing a content fork Mainly, these are articles on films and either their source or subsequent musicals. There are a couple where the musical needs to be "forked" from the source material. Feel free to add or remove as necessary. Important: If you split an article, please make sure that you move all the relevant links from the first article to the new one. To find which links to move, click on "What links here" at the old article and look through the list to see which links should be pointed to the film related link (for example, articles on actors in the film). Then, click on those links and update them to point to the film article. Thanks! Don't Play Us Cheap Roberta How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying I Married an Angel Lady in the Dark The Band Wagon - musical adaptation will to be forked after it opens in April.

Apparently, there was a very unsuccessful sequel: http://www.theatredb.com/QShow.php?sid=s0144 It was called 'Bring Back Birdie'. Could make a bit of interesting trivia

Contents 1 Link Disamb. 2 Xeero trivia 3 New Songs for TV Film 4 Vandalism 5 Plot Summary Expansion

[edit] Link Disamb.

"Some praise the movie as a classic example of 60's camp" If anyone knows the specific article that camp should link to here, could you please change it in the article? Thanks! --Hetar 00:22, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Xeero trivia

I've just removed this line of supposed trivia -

Although still slightly unknown, the quasi-famous drummer known only as Xeero (pronounced Zero), provided drums for a production of Bye Bye Birdie.

Really doesn't seem notable if an unknown drummer played in an unspecified production. I've Googled 'Xeero drummer' (which also returns results for 'drums' and 'drum') and only received a list of 17 results, the top one being this Wikipedia article, most of the rest being user accounts on several forums and a blog.

If someone does have a source for this information that proves its notability then please add it back (with a rewrite) and a link to the info. Kineticpast 02:54, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Songs for TV Film

I changed the titles of the songs that were new to the Jason Alexander film. It used to have titles that were from the Broadway play. Also, the train scene IS from the Broadway play, so I deleted the line that said it wasn't. ZimZimmah 20:24, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

Corrected vandalized accreditation to Dick Van Dyke. Slampaladino 00:42, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Plot Summary Expansion

I'd like to expand the plot summary to include more details and song placement. The movie might even warrent its own section or article; even though the basic story is the same, the sequence of events and songs is quite different. If no one minds, I'll at least begin work on the plot summary.MarianKroy (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Go for it! The film needs its own article: Bye Bye Birdie (film). However, if you copy info to a new film article, you also need to click on the "what links here" link at the left of your screen and transfer the links that are relevant to only the film article. Let me know if you need help with that. Best regards, -- Ssilvers (talk) 22:57, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

I expanded the plot summary; I'll begin the film article as soon as I can.MarianKroy (talk) 18:12, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Looks great! Thanks for all the work you're doing to improve the musicals articles. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:04, 17 March 2008 (UTC)