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Bye Bye Birdie

On the week-end of May 5, 6, & 7, 2006, the Mater Dei High School Theatre Department performed ‘Bye Bye Birdie’ in the Kempf Auditorium for their Spring Musical. Debbie Haton, teacher and sponsor of the Mater Dei High School’s National Honor Society furnished matinee tickets for Jacob’s Village to attend the Sunday, May 7, 3:00pm showing. Wanda, Debbie, Donna Kay, Mike, Michael, Scott, home coordinators Gloria and Joe arrived a half hour early for the performance. Showing our tickets, receiving the program bill, and being some of the first few to enter Kempf Auditorium when the doors opened; the Jacob’s Village bunch were able to choose their seats right in the middle of the 375 seat facility.
The musical began with an audio/video montage of a Conrad Birdie, teen-age girl, crony fan-club singing about how much they loved him. Then, the story immediately kicked-off with Birdies’ manager trying to create a sensational, P/R-money making send-off for Birdie upon joining the Army. As the story goes, a scheme was worked up to have an unknown teen-age girl give a goodbye Birdie kiss on a remote location on the ‘Ed Sullivan Show’. Jealousies, emotions and trying to have control of others actions make this story just as relevant today as it did in 1960. Good acting, good singing, and a small orchestra in the pit playing good music throughout made for one enjoyable show. A good time was had by all and Jacob’s Village sent a big heart thank you to Debbie Haton. The talent in High School musical shows is very entertaining and worth ones time to see. We gave it a 'thumbs up'

posted by J V Resident Blog @ 7:34 AM