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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2017
‘Bye Bye Birdie!’ takes off tonight in Seaside
sort of happy, sad, angry, and
they’re all happening at the
same time. I think it is what
makes this play really fun to
act.”
By KATHERINE
LACAZE
For The Daily Astorian
SEASIDE —It’s the late
1950s. Rock ’n’ roll idol
Conrad Birdie, who has been
drafted into the U.S. Army à
la Elvis Presley, is preparing
to leave for the military by
working alongside his man-
agers to stage a public fare-
well kiss with a randomly
selected all-American teen-
age girl.
What follows, accord-
ing to cast members of Sea-
side High School’s produc-
tion of “Bye Bye Birdie,”
is a humorously dramatic,
fun frolic featuring high-en-
ergy music, extensive cho-
reography and a plot line of
“everything going all wrong
at the same time and kind of
resolving,” senior Zeynep
Payzanoğlu said.
Rehearsals
The cast of 17 has been
rehearsing for a couple
months under the director-
ship of English teacher Lee-
Ann Schmelzenbach, whose
first experience directing was
the high school’s 2016 musi-
cal “Urinetown.” The pro-
duction also includes a tech-
nical crew of seven people
and a four-person band, fea-
turing musicians Bill Siew-
art, Julie Smith, Max Strozzi
and Drew Weil.
According to cast mem-
bers, the show promises audi-
ences a good time with lots of
spunk, comedy, intrigue and
especially memorable music.
They agreed “Honestly Sin-
cere” is one of the best songs
in the production.
Sophomore Majestik De
Luz, who plays one of the
Elvis-style heartthrob’s many
fangirls, added, “Our ded-
ication to Conrad Birdie is
pretty extreme, so I think
that’s probably a good aspect
of the play.” Another com-
ical aspect, according to
senior Adam Morse, who
plays Albert, is the love story
between his character and
Rosie — and how Albert’s
mother tries to get in the way
using guilt-tripping and other
manipulative tactics.
In general, the students
anticipate the audience will
enjoy themselves as much
as the cast has during the
rehearsal process. De Luz
said one of her favorite
aspects of the overall experi-
ence has been “growing as a
cast and really bonding with
New York City
The play, written by
Michael Stewart with music
by Charles Strouse and lyr-
ics by Lee Adams, begins in
New York City. Rosie Alva-
rez and Albert Peterson, Bird-
ie’s managers concoct their
scheme involving the rock
singer and choose 15-year-
old Kim McAfee as the lucky
girl to receive his goodbye
kiss. The troupe, accompa-
nied by Albert’s possessive
mother, then head to Kim’s
hometown of Sweet Apple,
Ohio, and turn it upside down
with raucous publicity, music
and drama.
“You see a lot of emo-
tions all together — from
Rosie, from Kim, from
Conrad, from Albert,” said
Payzanoğlu, an exchange
student from Turkey who
plays Rosie. “Everybody’s
Katherine Lacaze/For The Daily Astorian
The cast for Seaside High School’s production of “Bye Bye Birdie” is preparing for the show to open tonight. Perfor-
mances also will be held Saturday and March 2,3 and 4.
each other, just backstage or
sitting out (in the cafeteria),
waiting for our next part.”
Seaside High School’s
production of “Bye Bye
Birdie,” presented in arrange-
ment with Tams-Whitmark
Music Library Production,
will take place tonight and
Saturday and March 2, 3 and
4. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
and the show starts at 7. Gen-
eral admission is $8 per per-
son. Honored citizens and
children 12 and younger are
admitted for $6 and high
school students for $4. For
more information, call the
school at 503-738-5586.
Senior
Zeynep
Payzanoğlu
(from left),
sophomore
Jack Sta-
pleton and
sophomore
Chance
Giguiere
practice
choreog-
raphy for a
song from
“Bye Bye
Birdie”
during a
rehearsal.
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