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Steve Schwartz wrote:
> Because my parents loved me, they took me to a performance
> of the original production of Birdie, so I got to see Dick Van Dyke,
> Chita Rivera, and a man who became an instant hero, Paul Lynde, purveyor
> of wickedly funny comic timing before Bewitched sugared him up for TV.
> At 12, I considered myself a connoisseur of musicals.
What Steve modestly fails to mention is that a few years later he himself
essayed the Van Dyke role -- brilliantly, I might add -- in a high school
production of Bye Bye Birdie. I was there!
Art Scott
Livermore, Cal.
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