Can two friends from a small country town survive all the world can throw at them? Dig out the boogie board and dive right in, this show is a breath of fresh air, Music theatre's equivalent of a day at the beach. From torch songs to tango, show tunes to R’n’B, the show is famous for its memorable, original, commercial, catchy score. A growing number of music theatre followers have embarked upon the “Evie & the Birdman” journey you are about to take. ‘Evie’ is into it’s 20th production in Australia and new Bird members are climbing into the nest all the time. Contact Origin Theatrical for rights to stage Evie & the Birdman A totally original, wildly different piece of music theatre.Minimum cast of 9; no maximum! Evie was originally staged at the Bondi Pavilion. It has then had versions staged at the Mittagong Playhouse, The Mousetrap Theatre, The Regals Music Society, Tamworth Music Society (return season), The Induru Playhouse, Oxley College (twice), DomRemy College and Arndell College and others, another production approaches in November with The Milton Follies staging this most commercial of shows. Click the link on the left to see the original production trailer. Contact “Origin Theatrical” to enquire about staging “Evie & The Birdman”
HEAR A SELECTION OF THE SONGS FROM “EVIE & THE BIRDMAN”
“What You Gonna Do?” At a farewell party , Dad warns Evie and Lester on the perils of life outside their home town of Tullamana,
“How Do I Begin To Tell You?” Evie’s soliloquy song about hiding her massive crush on Lester her lifelong friend.
“I’m Always Your Friend” Dad is worried, writes a letter of assurance to his son with the help of the townspeople
“Va Va Va Voom- The Seduction” Lester is seduced by the luscious Miss Yahwhohow into signing directly with B.I.G. thus cutting Evie out.
“Chocolate Is The Colour Of The Blues” Evelyn devastated, returns home, takes to her bed, binges on chocolate and TV in bed for 6 months
“I’m Going To Be Someone”. Lester is now famous as a musical meme “The Birdman”. Evie stages a comeback going into TV and getting her life back
“A Little Town Called Tullamana” B.I.G the company goes after the country town Evie and Lester grew up in.
THIS IS THE STORY!
Around the bar of the “Mud Bath Hotel”, in the small country town of Tullamana, a farewell party is being held for Lester and Evelyn . Lester is leaving to sign a recording contract with the business conglomerate “B.I.G.” and Evelyn is to be his manager. The board of “B.I.G” are up to their ears in insider trading schemes and decide to set Lester up to be their much needed share market disaster.To enable this, they unleash the luscious, sensual PR girl Miss Yahwhohow on to the gullible Lester. Our hero is seduced and bamboozled into choosing Miss Yahwhohow over Evelyn as his manager. Evie goes home heartbroken and stays in bed for six months, binging on TV and chocolate
Meanwhile, Miss Yahwhohow gives Lester the most ridiculous image possible- he is now to be known as the Birdman. The Birdman is a flop as planned, until his trite ridiculous image goes viral, he becomes internet sensation. His songs start selling, his videos are memed, he is a celebrity, inf not quite the one he wanted to be. B.I.G, fearing their share price will increase, sack Miss Yahwhohow, hold a press conference and publicly ridicule the Birdman, they drop him from their label. He becomes a public joke- press bashed and ridiculed till his father hits upon the idea of faking the death of the Birdman. Evelyn meanwhile, snaps out of her chocolate torpor and decides to “be someone”. She goes into television as a journalist.
Act two opens years later and things have changed. Evelyn is now a major TV personality with her own current affairs show - “Evelyn at Nine”. Miss Yahwhohow has become wealthy by retaining the rights and royalties of the supposedly dead Birdman. Miss Yahwhohow has bought control of B.I.G . She then outlines how B.I.G will demolish Tullamana to build a casino resort over Tullamana’s mud baths. They own the only bank in town and by calling in all loans, the town has no choice but to sell to B.I.G. In desperation Lester writes to the producers’ of Evelyn’s show. Via a letter, he is invited to appear, the whole town believe Evelyn must have pulled a few strings; however Evelyn is unaware whom she is about to interview. In shock at seeing Lester again after 5 years, Evelyn runs off her own show.
One week before the town is demolished, Evie and Lester meet to see if they can find a way to defeat B.I.G. In a climactic “Evelyn at Nine”, Lester dons the old Bird suit and rises from the dead in front of a shocked and now considerably less wealthy Miss Yahwhohow.. Ownership of B.I.G is now transferred from Yahwhohow to the very alive Birdman.
Evelyn thanks the TV audience then attends to some long suppressed business with Lester.......
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