Bye Bye Birdie - List of Characters & Scenes
Updated - 6/8/07
This list of characters and scenes is a working document that will be changing as the rehearsals progress. There are several scenes listed that are complete and accurate, but other characters in other scenes will change as the rehearsals progress. Characters may be added or deleted, depending on how the actors work together or based on space constraints or other limitations. Please keep up with the changes and ask if you are unsure.
ACT |
SCENE |
LOCATION |
MUSICAL NUMBERS |
CHARACTERS PRESENT |
| Overture |
|
Main Drape |
1A - " Overture" |
Teens |
I |
1 |
Office of AlMeaLou Corp. |
2 - "Opening Curtain"
3 -
"An English Teacher" |
Albert, Rosie |
Transition: "English Teacher Tag" |
I |
2 |
The Teen Cyc |
4 - "The Telephone Hour" |
Teens |
Transition: 5 - "Telephone Hour Playoff" & Ursula's Monologue if needed |
I |
3 |
MacAFee Home Interior |
5 - "How Lovely To Be a Woman" |
Ursula, Kim, Mrs. MacAfee, Mr. Macafee, Randolph? |
Transition: 7 "Penn Station Transition" into Teens w/ "We love you Conrad " |
I |
4 |
Penn Station |
8 - "Put on a Happy Face"
9 - "Healthy Normal American Boy" |
Albert, Teens, Rosie, Mrs. Peterson, Policeman, Reporters, Children, Adults |
Transition: "Penn Station to Sweet Apple" |
I |
5 |
Sweet Apple Station |
11 - "Sweet Apple Band"
12 - "One Boy" |
Ursula, Kim, Teens, Albert, Rosie, Hugo, Alice, Deborah Sue |
I |
6t |
The Dark |
13 - "Sweet Apple Station" |
Reporter (s), Fred, Alice, Ursula, Mrs. Merkle, Lee, Phyllis |
I |
6 |
The Courthouse Steps |
14 - "Honestly Sincere" |
Mayor, Ursula, Teens, Conrad, Albert, Rosie, Some adults and children |
I |
7t |
Darkness? - Outside MacAfee's |
15 - "Wounded" |
Voices (6) Ursula, Margie, Deborah Sue |
I |
7 |
MacAfee House Interior |
16 - "Hymn to a Sunday Evening" |
Kim, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs. MacAfee, Randolph, Albert, Ursula, Margie, Deborah Sue, Mrs. Merkle, Mayor's Wife, Conrad, selected singers |
Transition: End of "Hymn to a Sunday Evening " |
I |
8 |
Backstage at the Central Movie Theatre |
17 - "One Hundred Ways Ballet" |
Rosie, Albert, Mae, Gloria, Hugo |
Transition: "TV Theme" (18) and Sullivan VO |
I |
9 |
Central Movie Theatre |
18 - "TV Theme continued"
19 - "One Last Kiss"
"Fine Upstanding" |
Stage Manager, Cameraman, Makeup/Costume lady, etc, Conrad, Kim, Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. MacAfee, Quartette, Hugo, Albert, Rosie, selected townspeople |
ACT |
SCENE |
LOCATION |
MUSICAL NUMBERS |
CHARACTERS PRESENT |
| Prologue |
|
Main Drape |
20A - " Entre'Acte B" |
Teens |
2 |
1 |
MacAfee House Interior |
21 - "What Did I Ever See in Him?"
22 - "Underscore" |
Rosie, Kim |
2
|
2 |
MacAfee House Interior |
23 - "What Did I Ever See In Him? - Reprise" |
Conrad, Albert, Rosie, Mae, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs. MacAfee, Randolph, Kim |
Transition: 24 - "A Lot of Livin' To Do" |
2 |
3 |
Streets of Sweet Apple |
25 - "A Lot of Livin' "
26 - "Kids" |
Conrad, Teens, Hugo, Parents, Kids, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs. MacAfee, Randolph, Albert |
Transition: 26 - "Kids - Change" |
2 |
4 |
Maude's Roadside Retreat / Albert on payphone? |
27 - "Baby, Talk to Me" |
Hugo, Maude, Rosie, Albert, Quartet |
Transition: 28 - "Transition to Shriners" - Maude's and Albert's lines |
2 |
5 |
Maude's Roadside Retreat - Private Dining Room |
29 - "Shriner Ballet" |
Mayor, Rosie, Shriners |
Transition: 30 - "Shriner's Play-Off" - Random Chasing if Needed |
2 |
6 |
Back Door of Maude's |
30 - "Shriner's Play-Off"
31 - "Glory Hallelujah" |
Hugo, Rosie, Albert, Mae, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs, MacAfee, Randolph, Families, Shriner |
Transition: 33 - "Lamont Cranston to Icehouse" |
2 |
7 |
Ice House |
34 - "Ice House Livin' "
35 - "An English Teacher Reprise"
36 - "Spanish Rose" |
Kim, Ursula, Conrad, Teens, Albert, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs. MacAfee, Hugo, Rosie, Mae, Dancers? |
Transition: 37 - Part of Spanish Rose? "Morning" |
2 |
8 |
Sweet Apple Railroad Station |
37 - "Morning"
38 - "Hand Car"
39 - "Rosie" |
Albert, Conrad, Mae, Mr. MacAfee, Mrs. MacAfee, some townspeople, Conductor, teens, Rosie |
40 - Finale |
41 - Bows and Exit Music |
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