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May 5, 2009, Tuesday
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THE first Broadway revival of "Bye Bye Birdie" has found a home.
The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will open the musical on October 15 at the new Henry Miller's Theatre, constructed behind the restored neo-Georgian facade of the original theater built more than 90 years ago.
The 1,055-seat theatre is on New York's West 43rd Street in the new Bank of America Tower near Times Square.
"Birdie" will star John Stamos, Gina Gershon and Bill Irwin in a production directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom.
The 1960 musical concerns an Elvis Presley-like rock 'n' roll star named Conrad Birdie who is being drafted into the army and the effect his departure has on the teenagers in a small Ohio town. "Birdie" features a score by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams and a book by Michael Steward.
Stamos will play the star's manager, Albert Peterson, and Gershon will portray the manager's long-suffering secretary.
The original theater was built by actor-manager Henry Miller and opened on April 1, 1918.
The Roundabout Theatre Company says it will open the musical on October 15 at the new Henry Miller's Theatre, constructed behind the restored neo-Georgian facade of the original theater built more than 90 years ago.
The 1,055-seat theatre is on New York's West 43rd Street in the new Bank of America Tower near Times Square.
"Birdie" will star John Stamos, Gina Gershon and Bill Irwin in a production directed and choreographed by Robert Longbottom.
The 1960 musical concerns an Elvis Presley-like rock 'n' roll star named Conrad Birdie who is being drafted into the army and the effect his departure has on the teenagers in a small Ohio town. "Birdie" features a score by Charles Strouse and Lee Adams and a book by Michael Steward.
Stamos will play the star's manager, Albert Peterson, and Gershon will portray the manager's long-suffering secretary.
The original theater was built by actor-manager Henry Miller and opened on April 1, 1918.
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