Each time a Broadway present turns into a film, followers have loud opinions in regards to the adaptation. Since Broadway exhibits and films are such totally different mediums, modifications should be made to make issues work, and generally followers should not completely happy about these modifications. Take Bye Bye Birdie, for instance. The Broadway present premiered in 1960 and the movie got here simply three years later. Dick Van Dyke starred in each diversifications as Albert Peterson, and it seems he really hated the best way the movie got here out!
In a brand new interview on SiriusXM’s The place All people Is aware of Your Identify, Van Dyke opened as much as Cheers star Ted Danson. Van Dyke talked about, “Bye Bye Birdie, the film was a drag as a result of we couldn’t make out what it had been.”