" Melanie: Wait! Close that door! Quickly!
Annie: What?
Melanie: Please!
Annie (closes door): What is it?
Melanie (both at window): Look!
We've got to get the children out of here!"
--'Tippi' Hedren and Suzanne Pleshette, in
Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" (1963)
Every so often, "The Birds" surfaces. The desire to walk across Union Street in San Francisco, like 'Tippi' Hedren at the opening, in my black suit and heels, will not let up.
Though sometimes, the actor/actress in me yearns for the role of Annie Hayworth.
Now, I have come up with a great idea. A musical adaptation of "The Birds!!!!!!!" It would be called "Pecked!," not to be confused with John Waters' film, "Pecker."
Just think the numbers that could be written for Melanie and Annie. A duet for each of them, with Mitch. A child's number for Cathy. The school attack could be the big set piece dance number. And how about the hysterical mother.
I would love to see it done in drag, though Celia and Jessie could certainly do it!!!!!!!! How about Patti Lu Pone for Lydia??????? Oh, my God, it would be a scream!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And where would it play? Why, the Winter Garden! After being inhabited by "Cats" for decades, it is time "Pecked" had its turn!
"Cathy's Aria!!!!!!!!!!" See what career hysteria looks like?
And what a kids' cattle call this show will have! Bigger than "Annie!"
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