Pink dragged off stage in failed concert stunt

CBC.ca - ‎Jul 16, 2010‎

American singer Pink, seen here performing in Cologne, Germany, in May, will continue with her tour despite being yanked off-stage in a failed airborne stunt on Thursday night. (Henning Kaiser/AFP/Getty Images) Despite a startling stage stunt gone ...

Why BYE BYE BIRDIE Returns to Broadway After Nearly 50 Years, According to the New York Times

Tuesday, October 13, 2009; Posted: 02:10 PM - ddthis_pub = 'broadwayworld';



There is no doubt that Bye Bye Birdie is one of this season's most highly anticipated shows. With an all star cast that includes John Stamos and Gina Gershon, and having the cache of being one of the most popular musicals of all time, critics and audience members alike are eager to see what this revival will bring--48 years after it last left Broadway. As the New York Times points out in a special Birdie feature out recently, the show is not an easy revival, and has had a string of productions starring major players (such as Tommy Tune and Ann Reinking in the 1991 road show) that received a lukewarm reception.
In the New York Times feature, Charles McGrath examines just why it has taken almost 50 years to resurrect what some would say is a "sure thing" on Broadway. At the crux of the problem: casting. Read McGrath's feature here.
Still, according to the Times, director Robert Longbottom was eager, though hesitant to resurrect even this revival, though was ultimately compelled by the challenge of finding just the right players. He tells the paper: "I think the score of ‘Bye Bye Birdie' is greatly underappreciated, with a lot of terrific songs. It's a classic American musical. I've never understood, for example, why ‘Baby, Talk to Me' didn't become a Frank Sinatra standard...Even so, "I wanted to see what it felt like to reinvent all those iconic roles."
Bye Bye Birdie, a Roundabout Production, is currently in previews at the New Henry Miller's Theatre and will officially open on Thursday, October 15th. Stamos and Gershon are joined by Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson), Dee Hoty (Mrs. MacAfee), Matt Doyle (Hugo Peabody), Jake Evan Schwencke (Randolph MacAfee) & Allie Trimm (Kim MacAfee). Robert Longbottom directs and choreographs Bye Bye Birdie with a book by Michael Stewart, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams.
In Bye Bye Birdie, the rock n' roll musical comedy, it's 1960 and hip-swingin' teen idol superstar Conrad Birdie (Funk) has been drafted into the army. Birdie's manager Albert (Stamos) and his secretary Rosie (Gershon) have cooked up a plan to send him off with a swell new song and one last kiss from a lucky teenage fan... on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Tickets are available online at www.byebyebirdieonbroadway.com or by phone at (212)239-6200. Ticket prices range from $86.50 - $136.50. To become a Roundabout subscriber visit www.roundabouttheatre.org or call Roundabout Ticket Services (212)719-1300.
Bye Bye Birdie plays Tuesday through Saturday evening at 8:00PM with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:00PM.

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PROGRESS REQUIRES COMMITMENT TO ACHIEVEMENT. DECLINE REQUIRES COMMITMENT TO FAILURE. ROME REACHED IT'S ZENITH BY THE SECOND CENTURY AD.BY 330 AD THERE WERE TWO ROMES. ONE IN THE EAST AND ONE IN THE WEST. THE GREAT EMPEROR CONSTANTINE LED THE ROME OF THE EAST.IN 476 AD ROME OF THE WEST FELL, DUE TO A LOSS OF CIVIC VIRTUE. ROME OF THE EAST CONTINUED FOR ANOTHER THOUSAND YEARS. IN THIS UNION THERE ARE NOW THREE UNIONS. SPLIT BY THE ILLEGAL AND UNDEMOCRATIC TIER SYSTEM, AN ACTUAL DISCRIMINATORY SYSTEM. TIERED SYSTEMS ARE DEFINED AS DISCRIMINATORY BY THE BEST LABOR LEADERS IN AMERICA.CLOSE ANALYSIS CONCLUDES THAT THERE ARE ACTUALLY MORE THAN THREE DIVISIONS.THE PRECISE NUMBER IS UNIMPORTANT FOR THIS PURPOSE AND DISCUSSION.THE FACT THAT THESE TIERS EXIST IS IN FACT CAUSING A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE OVERALL HEALTH OF THIS SYSTEM.GREAT POLITICAL LEADERS UNIFY WEAK DIVIDED SYSTEMS INTO GREAT POLITICAL SYSTEMS.WEAK POLITICAL LEADERS FRAGMENT ALREADY DIVIDED SYSTEMS INTO GREATER SEGMENTATION AND COLLAPSE.IF THIS SYSTEM IS TO CONTINUE AND MOVE TO RESTORATION THAN WE NEED TO PROVIDE LEADERS THAT UNIFY RATHER THAN DIVIDE. CONTINUED POLARIZATION WILL LEAD TO TOTAL SYSTEM COLLAPSE LIKE THE FALL OF UNIFIED ROME AND THE ROME OF THE WEST.

ON JANUARY 26TH PHANTOM OF THE OPERA BECAME THE FIRST BROADWAY PLAY TO MARK 20 SUCCESSIVE YEARS ON BROADWAY. AT PHANTOM AND AT THE OTHER BROADWAY PLAYS WE MUST TAKE THE MASK OFF TO REVEAL 20 YEARS OF DISCRIMINATION AT THIS VENUE AND AT AT THE OTHER BROADWAY VENUES. AT THIS PHANTOM OF DEMOCRACY AND AT ALL BROADWAY PLAYS. AT ALL OPERA'S, DANCE COMPANIES, BALLET'S, CONCERT HALLS, TELEVISION STUDIOS, INDUSTRIALS AROUND THE BUSINESS. LET US REMOVE THE MASK AND REVEAL THE REAL PHANTOM OF DEMOCRACY. LET US REMOVE THE MASK AND CREATE THE NEW MUSIC AND ANTHEM TO DEMOCRACY THE MEMBERS UNION.

With their slips around their ankles, and rough, lipstick and mascara running for all to see the union better start defending itself, the party is over girls.

IT IS EASY TO BELIEVE MCNAMEE WAS ONCE A BAD COP. IS CLEMENS BAD? IT IS EASY TO WANT TO SEE HIM AS A GOOD AND GREAT YANKEE. IT IS ALSO EASY TO WANT TO SEE OUR OFFICERS AND HEADS AS GOOD AND GREAT. BUT WHAT IS THE ACTUAL TRUTH IN THE CASE OF CLEMENS AND OUR GUYS? WE CAN'T HELP CLEMENS, BUT WE CAN HELP OURSELVES AND THIS UNION AND OUR OFFICERS AND HEADS AND LEAD THEM IN THE CORRECT UNION DIRECTION.

Their government the intersection of fine and con arts.

We are in no rush to post comments formerly on the BL1. The Democracy Anvil is doing a fine job for all of us. We will publish a few comments now and then as we please to move to union democracy.

I know a lot of you are checking up on us. Keep checking up we will publish later in the week. Busy with more important things as you well know.

Sorry we have not posted lately, we are not in a rush. We downloaded a lot of the BL1 comments when they were up. We will only use comments of those members who have give us permission to repeat their comments. All in time. A little more each day towards real union democracy. Enjoy the holiday weekend. Our sympathy to Sarah Sanchez and her family.

THEY MAY HAVE LEARNED A PATTERN, FRAUD, DECEPTION FROM THE FATHERS, BUT WE WILL TEACH THEM LABOR LAW; FOR THEM 7 THE HARD WAY.

Raise high the roof beam carpenters-for the NEW ONE!!!!!!!!

The government needs to be both shaken and stirred to make a better democratic and mixed martini, to actually bond with the membership.

A study of history leads to a logical plan for the future. Those who have not planned will be forced to abide by the present will of others as their future destiny. We must be a One of logos. A One stirving towards healthy growth and not being reduced by a lack of development and planning. The new One is the new logos. It will replace the chaos that is the present system.

As Shakespeare so well noted in his classic tragedy of family greed and corruption in the play Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", upon learning that his uncle, who had married his mother had previously killed his father to make the marriage possible. They have killed democracy to make this marriage of corruption and convenience against the orphans of this system. The tragedy of Hamlet is occurring daily on all the stages of Local One. The dilemma, for the orphan members, to avenge the negligence and abuse heaped upon us by our orphan fathers. We are in fact all the Kings men, and we will regain our throne and title

Richard and Gary are the voting members. The trial against them is the trial against all of us. They violate labor law against us all on a daily basis.

The Safari Seven have Magnificiently cornered the Lion, and we are in the process of trapping this beast, and then we will tame him.

Let's face it the families act as if they own the union and the theatres, and they don't. As legal cardholders, and owning a book with this union we have a contractual expectation, a fiduciary expectation to the fruits of the labor contracts, our fair and equal share. The families do not own the officers either, they must legally be officers to all members not just the families. To do otherwise is to negligently violate labor law, and commit unfair labor practice against the cardholders

As Shakespeare so well noted in his classic tragedy on family greed and corruption in the play Hamlet, "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark", upon learning that his uncle, who had married his mother had previously killed his father to make the marriage possible. They have killed democracy to make this marriage of corruption and convenience against the orphans of this system. The tragedy of Hamlet is occurring daily across the stages of Local One. The dilemma, for the orphan members, to avenge the negligence and abuse heaped upon us by our orphan fathers. We are in fact all the Kings men, and we will regain this throne and title.

WHO IS BUYIN THE OFFICERS THEM SUMMER AND WINTER HOMES?

It takes nine to play the game, but only seven to win it. In all our variations of seven we remain the democratic and victorious seven.

Yes call that chump short back from the West Coast and tell him to square things with the Cohen boys.

"People of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." We will accomplish union democracy in our time in this union. Guaranteed

"THIS INSTRUMENT CAN TEACH, IT CAN ILLUMINATE, YES AND IT CAN EVEN INSPIRE. BUT IT CAN DO ONLY TO THE EXTENT THAT HUMANS ARE DETERMINED TO USE IT TO THOSE ENDS. OTHERWISE IT'S JUST WIRES AND LIGHTS IN A BOX."
Murrow October 1958.

IN TIME WE WILL TEACH THEM TO BE CORRECT, OTHERWISE THESE WIRES AND LIGHTS IN THIS BOX WILL HAVE GONE TO WASTE. THERE IS NO TIME TO WASTE. ONLY TIME TO MOVE FORWARD. THE PAST IS THE PAST. THIS IS THE FUTURE.

WE VOW TO KEEP THIS BOX LIT.

JIMMY SANDS JANUARY 2008. SEVEN: THE NEW MURROW

WE ARE BACK FROM TOURING AND WILL BE POSTING THIS WEEK. STAY TUNED FOR THE NEW BL1RETURNED.

WE ARE ON THE ROAD WITH A SHOW WILL BE PUBLISHING SOON. TUNE INTO THE DEMOCRACY ANVIL FOR NOW.

IATSE AND LOCAL ONE DEMOCRACY NOW

THANK YOU DEMOCRACY ANVIL FOR ALLOWING US TO LINK TOGETHER. WE WILL BE OPEN SOON.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. SOME OF US HAVE DECIDED TO REOPEN THIS COMMENT PAGE AND WILL KEEP THE SITE OPEN UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE ORIGIONAL EDITORS WANT TO RESUME PUBLISHING COMMENTS. THANKS AGAIN. THE CREW.