Brace yourself for some misplaced nostalgia and mid-century Justin Biebers, because this week we’re mashing up classic Americana musical Bye Bye Birdie with perspective-bending classic novel The Sound and the Fury. We talk about the redundancy of this crossover in a world where Mad Men exists, why Brady Bunching it isn’t always the best solution to a crossover, and how much more expensive it’s gotten to do the show now that Annie’s cashed in her middle-school musical points and gone Equity. Check us out iTunes, Soundcloud, and Stitcher for more content and fun discussions, but make sure to do it quick, before a meteor crashes into the city and kills everybody.
Where to find this week’s pop culture (as of show date):
- Listen to the original Broadway cast of Bye Bye Birdie on Spotify, and check your local theaters for productions.
- Check out The Sound and the Fury from your local library, or buy a copy from your favorite indie bookstore.
Readers’ advisory, aka other stuff we like that we think you’ll like, too:
- Grease
- Hairspray
- Dreamgirls
- West Side Story
- Cry -Baby
- Mamma Mia
- High School Musical
- High School Musical
- The Wiz
- Guys and Dolls
- The Music Man
- Rebel Without a Cause
- Mad Men
- In Cold Blood
- Pleasantville
- Back to the Future
- Absalom, Absalom
- Go Down, Moses
- The Unvanquished
- The Case for Reparations
- A Good Man is Hard to Find
- Beloved
- To the Lighthouse
- The Known World
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
- O Brother, Where Art Thou
- Little, Big: or the Fairies Parliament
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