All in Obscure Musicals

Bring Back Birdie Blog Part One: Thoughts on Bring Back Birdie, Musical Sequels, and the Scathing Wit of the New York Times

Bring Back Birdie is the ill-fated 1981 musical sequel to the 1960 smash hit musical Bye Bye Birdie.

And when I say the plot of this show is wacky, I mean that the first time that I read the synopsis on Wikipedia, I thought that someone had edited the page and added a bunch of nonsense — until I got my hands on a copy of the record and learned that this synopsis has been lifted from the back of the record verbatim.

Thoughts on Alec in Blunderland, Med School Composers, and Casual Sexism Against Nurses

So apparently, this is a medical-student-written musical about the professors and experiences at Westminster Medical School in 1962. Which is to say, I’m guessing I’m not going to understand ANY of this because:

  1. It’s probably going to be a bunch of inside jokes, and not only that, it’s going to be

  2. a bunch of inside jokes with 1960s British humor, and to top it all off

  3. I don’t know anything about medicine.

Really looking forward to it.


Thoughts on My Fur Lady, Canadian Musicals, and a Bunch of Canadian History Nobody Cared to Teach Me in American Public School

We didn’t find any more Catholic school productions of the King and I, but we did find something. Chris pulled it out. It’s off-white with a turquoise and black illustration of a woman on its left side, and next to that it says:

A NEW RECORDING WITH THE ORIGINAL CAST OF THE CANADIAN MUSICAL COMEDY FIRST PRESENTED AT MCGILL UNIVERSITY FEBRUARY 1957:

My Fur Lady