In a new production at the Kennedy Center, the 1960 musical “Bye Bye Birdie” is as feather-light as ever, and mostly a showcase for its stars.
Ephraim Sykes, center, as Conrad Birdie, with the company of “Bye Bye Birdie” at the Kennedy Center. Imagine a modern-day U.S. Army knocking on Taylor Swift’s door and telling her she’s due for basic training.
Christian Borle, Tony Award-winning star of “Something Rotten!” and “Peter and the Starcatcher,” shoulders half of the Birdie-wrangling burden in the semi-staged production occupying the Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater as part of the Broadway Center Stage series. His rubbery physical-comedy exertions as Albert occasionally trip past Van Dyke territory and into that of Don Knotts, but he’s an agreeable sort of doofus, a natural for this mother-plagued neurotic of a character.
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