{"id":78,"date":"2008-03-23T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T07:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.chrisvanpatten.com\/theatreaficionado.com\/2008\/03\/well-im-not.html"},"modified":"2010-10-26T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T21:31:57","slug":"well-im-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Well, I&#8217;m Not&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ACrTZ431VT0&amp;hl=en\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ACrTZ431VT0&amp;hl=en\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Only a star with the luster of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chita_Rivera\">Chita Rivera<\/a> could shine through the abortion that was the four performance flop <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bring_Back_Birdie\">Bring Back Birdie<\/a>, <\/em>a woefully misguided sequel to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bye_Bye_Birdie_%28musical%29\">Bye Bye Birdie<\/a>, <\/em>checking in the familiar characters twenty years down the line. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_O%27Connor\">Donald O&#8217;Connor<\/a>, in his Main Stem bow, succeeded Dick Van Dyke, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Karnilova\">Maria Karnilova<\/a> played Mae taking over for the late <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kay_Medford\">Kay Medford<\/a>). The spark-plug the production needed, Rivera received a Tony nomination for her efforts, which were welcomed relief for otherwise severely disappointed theatregoers. &#8220;Well, I&#8217;m Not&#8221; was her big solo effort in the second act, a follow-up of sorts to the &#8220;Shriner&#8217;s Ballet&#8221;\/&#8221;Spanish Rose&#8221; numbers where Rosie defiantly sings and dances up a storm because she&#8217;s mad at Albert.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/content\/news.cfm\/story\/1941\">Peter Filichia<\/a> recalls the first act audience reaction at the very first preview in this 2002 article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only a star with the luster of Chita Rivera could shine through the abortion that was the four performance flop Bring Back Birdie, a woefully misguided sequel to Bye Bye Birdie, checking in the familiar characters twenty years down the line. (Donald O&#8217;Connor, in his Main Stem bow, succeeded Dick Van Dyke, Maria Karnilova played &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/?p=78\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&quot;Well, I&#8217;m Not&quot;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1696,1695],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bring-back-birdie","tag-chita-rivera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2794,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/2794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theatreaficionado.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}