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Broadway Blogs - Bway's First iPhone App and More...

Below are BroadwayWorld.com's blogs from Thursday, October 15, 2009. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from BroadwayWorld.com's bloggers!

Bway's First iPhone App
by Robert Diamond - October 15, 2009

Well, it's been quite the week here where I've also been getting over the flu, but I'm VERY excited and happy to share some great news, and that's that the first version of BroadwayWorld.com's iPhone app is now available (for FREE) from Apple's iPhone App Store. 

You can get the app by searching for 'Broadway' or 'BroadwayWorld' or by clicking here

We're proud to be the first Broadway web site with an iPhone app, and this early version features iPhone optimized versions of all of our news, regional content, photos, special offers, blogs, show listings and more, along with links to our wireless message board and other features. 

We've got A LOT of new features coming to already-in-the-works updated versions of the app in the very near future including search, video, and lots more and I'd love any and all feedback that YOU'VE got of this early release version and new features that YOU would like to see.

Please email me at robert@broadwayworld.com with your questions, comments and solutions and thanks as always for your support!


Bye Bye Birdie Reviews
by Robert Diamond - October 15, 2009

Bye Bye Birdie returns to Broadway in Roundabout Theater Company's new production starring John Stamos (Albert Peterson), Gina Gershon (Rose Alvarez) & Bill Irwin (Mr. Harry MacAfee) with Jayne Houdyshell (Mrs. Mae Peterson) & Dee Hoty (Mrs. MacAfee) and as “Conrad Birdie” Nolan Gerard Funk. Featuring a score with more pop than a pack of bubble gum, including “A Lot of Livin' to Do,” “Kids,” and “Put on a Happy Face,” opened Thursday night on Broadway.

Ben Brantley, The New York Times: "If you get a chance, send a few dozen get-well cards to Henry Miller's Theater, the new, handsomely renovated outpost of the Roundabout Theater Company empire. Flu season has arrived, and an especially mean virus appears to have attacked the cast of the revival of "Bye Bye Birdie," which opened Thursday night. I don't think it's the swine flu that has flattened Robert Longbottom's production of this popular 1960 musical about rebel rock 'n' roll versus small-town America wholesomeness. The symptoms in this case include tin ear, loss of comic timing, uncontrollable jitters and a prickly disorientation that screams, "Where am I?" and "What am I doing?" Theatergoers may feel an empathetic urge to rush home and bury their heads in their pillows."

Terry Teachout, The Wall Street Journal: "Needless to say, it long ago became common for musicals to be performed by accomplished actors who can also sing a little, but this is ridiculous. Not to put too fine a point on it, the Roundabout's revival of "Bye Bye Birdie" is the worst-sung musical I've ever seen on Broadway. If that prospect doesn't faze you, or if you're tone-deaf, then go with my blessing: Mr. Longbottom is an immensely gifted director-choreographer, and there's plenty to like about this production. I only wish it had been overdubbed."

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