Dancing back into the 1950s with "Bye Bye Birdie"
How do you inject genuine fun, fizz and frenzy into "Bye Bye Birdie," the musical that arrived on Broadway in 1960, served as an homage to the 1950s, and now, in so many ways, might easily feel as dated as black and white console televisions, land line telephones, The Ed Sullivan Show, pedal pushers, saddle shoes and gas-guzzling cars with giant tailfins? To begin with, you tap Tammy Mader, the Chicago director who f…