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    Last represented on Broadway with the 2002 revival of Flower Drum Song, Longbottom says he is looking forward to reintroducing New York theatre audiences to this timeless musical treasure. "I think it was a great musical of that era which we refer to as 'golden.' Everybody seems to have been a part of Bye Bye Birdie at some point in their life ... Gower Champion [the show's original directorchoreographer] won two Tony Awards, which fascinates me. What was the alchemy that resulted in a director having that kind of success at something that is so seamless and so tailored for their talents and their insights? I'm drawn to those shows the most, and the challenge of what I might be able to do with it." "It was important to me to breathe fresh life into this as a whole. Full Article at Playbill
    I think it was a great musical of that era which we refer to as 'golden.' Everybody seems to have been a part of Bye Bye Birdie at some point in their life ... Gower Champion [the show's original directorchoreographer] won two Tony Awards, which fascinates me. What was the alchemy that resulted in a director having that kind of success at something that is so seamless and so tailored for their talents and their insights? I'm drawn to those shows the most, and the challenge of what I might be able to do with it.
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Bringing Birdie Back
  1. I'm a drummer, so my approach is a sort of percussion approach where I want to bring in stuff to play my body, suitcases, etc.... My approach is going to be very rhythmic.
    SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago
  2. It was important to me to breathe fresh life into this as a whole. It's a choice you make.
    SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago
  3. We look at people who lived 50 years ago as older people today ... but they were cool at that moment and riding the wave of Elvis to The Beatles. I can't imagine anything more thrilling to be a part of, and we got Conrad Birdie.
    – Robert Longbottom SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago
  4. I'm going in with my strengths. Dick had such a specific way of moving. In the same way I want to find that, but I want to have something so specifically me.
    SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago
  5. Do you make that nod to the great directorchoreographer who did this by way of paying homage or borrowing it? Or do you try to set out and do something thats original?
    SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago
  6. I feel like I sort of paid my dues and I have worked my way here over the past 15 years ... I spent time learning the craft of being onstage, and being able to fill a stage.
    SOURCE: Playbill 2 months ago

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