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Article: AP REVIEW: 'Birdie' Still Has Appeal
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- May 7, 2004
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MICHAEL KUCHWARA, AP Drama Critic
AP Online
05-07-2004
Dateline: NEW YORK
Nearly 45 years after its Broadway premiere, "Bye Bye Birdie" seems as innocent _ and as far away _ as that 1920s exercise in classic nostalgia, "No, No, Nanette."
Yet "Birdie," the final offering of this season's "Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert" at City Center, still has enormous appeal as it works its way toward the half-century mark.
"Birdie," which originally opened on Broadway in April 1960, is pre-Beatles and before Aretha Franklin, but Elvis Presley was in his prime and the King's induction into the Army served as the inspiration for this musical about a rock 'n' roll idol named Conrad Birdie going ...
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