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• Non Sequitur Scene: Everyone in the movie melting at the end of "Telephone Hour."
• First Installment Wins: The 1981 sequel, Bring Back Birdie, only lasted 31 performances on Broadway.
• Values Dissonance: Though Albert's mother is not a particularly sympathetic character, her casual racism towards (the Hispanic) Rosie--Played for Laughs, even—can be jarring to modern audiences. Modern scripts for the play include alternative lines that soften her dialogue a tad.
  • The 1963 movie notably avoids this. Mrs. Peterson still hates Rosie, but it's because she is upset that Rosie will take her "baby," Albert, from her. In fact, Rosie's "Hispanic-ness" is barely even mentioned.
  • The lyrics of 'How Lovely To Be A Woman' can be cringe inducing.

'How lovely to be a woman/and have one job to do/to pick out a boy and train him/and then when you are through/you make him the man you want him to be...'

• • As can Hugo's possessiveness of Kim, Kim's eagerness to be told what to do by what is a comparatively new boyfriend... it doesn't always sit well with the feminists.