The Blue Bird (play)

For other literary works called The Blue Bird or L'Oiseau Bleu, see The Blue Bird.

L'Oiseau Bleu (The Blue Bird) is a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck. It was premiered in 1908 by Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre and has been turned into several films and a TV series.

The story is about a girl called Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl seeking happiness, represented by The Blue Bird of Happiness, aided by the good fairy Bérylune.

Maeterlinck wrote a little known sequel to L'Oiseau Bleu, entitled The Blue Bird and the Betrothal.

Film and TV adaptions

A bluebird is one of several species in the songbird genus Sialia.

Bluebird or blue bird may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Literature & Theatre

• "The Blue Bird" (fairy tale), by Madame d'Aulnoy, published in 1697
• The Blue Bird (play), a 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck
• Bluebird Photoplays, American film production company and a subsidiary of Universal Pictures

Comics

• Bluebird (Marvel Comics), a supporting character in Marvel Comics' Spider-Man series
• Bluebird (DC Comics), a supporting character in DC Comics' Batman series

Film and TV

• The Blue Bird (1910 film), a British silent film starring Pauline Gilmer and Olive Walter
• The Blue Bird (1918 film), an American silent film directed by Maurice Tourneur
• The Blue Bird (1940 film), an American fantasy film
• The Blue Bird (1976 film), a joint Soviet-American production directed by George Cukor
• Bluebird (2004 film), a Dutch television film directed by Mijke de Jong
• Blue Bird (2011 film), a Belgian drama film
• Bluebird (2013 film), an American film directed by Lance Edmands
• Bluebirds (TV series), a TV series by the BBC

Music

Albums

• Bluebird (Hank Jones album), 1956
• Bluebird (Emmylou Harris album), 1989
• Bluebird (Dawn Landes album), 2014
• Blue Bird (Charles Mingus album), 1970
• Blue Bird (EP), a 2013 extended play by Shouta Aoi
• Bluebird, a 1982 album by James Last

Songs

• "Bluebird" (Buffalo Springfield song), 1967
• "Bluebird" (Paul McCartney song), 1973
• "Bluebird" (Anne Murray song), 1990
• "Blue Bird" (Ayumi Hamasaki song), 2006
• "Blue Bird" (Korean folk song)
• "Blue Bird" (Russian folk song)
• "Bluebird" (Miranda Lambert song), 2019
• The Blue Bird (Stanford), a partsong by Charles Villiers Stanford
• "Bluebird", by The Boo Radleys
• "Bluebird", by Beach House from Depression Cherry
• "Bluebird", by Christina Perri from Lovestrong
• "Bluebird", by Dawn Landes from Bluebird, 2014
• "Bluebird", by Electric Light Orchestra from Secret Messages
• "Bluebird", by Helen Reddy from No Way to Treat a Lady
• "Bluebird", by Ikimono-gakari from My Song Your Song
• "Bluebird", by Jim White from Drill a Hole in That Substrate and Tell Me What You See
• "Bluebird", by Katie Noonan from Skin
• "Bluebird", by Little Big Town from Nightfall
• "Bluebird", by Sara Bareilles from Kaleidoscope Heart
• "Bluebird", by Spencer Krug from Beast Moans
• "Bluebirds", by Adam Green from Friends of Mine
• "Blue Bird", by Cassie Steele from How Much for Happy
• "Blue Bird", by Kobukuro
• "Bluebird", by Something for Kate from The Modern Medieval, 2020

Businesses

In arts and entertainment

• Bluebird Cafe, a music club in Nashville, Tennessee
• Blue Bird Café, a nightclub in Montreal, Canada, where a 1972 arson-caused fire claimed 37 lives - see Blue Bird Café fire
• Blue Bird Inn, a jazz club in Detroit
• Bluebird Records, a subsidiary label of RCA Records
• Bluebird Toys, a British toy company

In transportation

• Bluebird Airways, a Greek airline
• Bluebird Aviation, a Kenyan charter airline
• Blue Bird Aviation, a Sudanese charter airline
• Bluebird Cargo, a cargo airline based in Reykjavík, Iceland
• Bluebird Nordic, an Icelandic cargo airline
• Bluebird Bus and Coach, a bus operator in Greater Manchester, England
• Blue Bird Coach Lines, now a part of Coach USA
• Blue Bird Corporation, an American manufacturer of buses and large passenger vehicles
• Bluebird Group, an Indonesian transportation company
• Bluebird Rail Operations, railway rolling stock manufacturer in Australia
• Bluebird Vehicles, a former British minibus manufacturer
• Stagecoach Bluebird, a bus operator in Scotland

In the food industry

• Blue Bird Bakeries, a brand name of Flowers Foods
• Bluebird Foods, a New Zealand division of the U.S. based PepsiCo corporation
• Bluebird Garage, a restaurant in London, formerly a racing garage

Other businesses

• bluebird bio, a biotechnology firm
• Bluebird Gold Mine, a gold mine in Western Australia
• BlueBird, communication ones by AST SpaceMobile

Geography

• Bluebird Creek, a stream in Iowa, United States
• Bluebird Gap, a gap in Georgia, United States
• Blue Bird Lake, a lake for migratory birds in Haryana, India

Sports

• Bluebird (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse
• A nickname for a member of Barrow A.F.C.
• A nickname for a member of Cardiff City F.C.
• A nickname for a member of Chippenham Town F.C.

Transportation

For transportation companies, see #Businesses

• Blue Bird (train), a passenger train operated by the Wabash Railroad
• Bluebird Compartment Car (New York City Subway car)
• Blackburn Bluebird, a British aircraft
• Nissan Bluebird, a car manufactured by the Nissan Motor Company
• Nickname for two types of New York City subway cars in their original paint scheme:
  • R33 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)
  • R36 World's Fair (New York City Subway car)
• South Australian Railways Bluebird railcar

Other uses

• USS Bluebird, various US Navy vessels
• Bluebird record-breaking vehicles, a series of cars and boats used by Sir Malcolm Campbell and Donald Campbell, to set speed records
• Bluebirds (Australian nurses), a group of Australian civilian nurses who served in French hospitals during World War I
• Blue bird (cocktail), a cocktail made with gin
• Bluebird by American Express, a prepaid debit card
• Blue Birds, youngest members of the Camp Fire Girls
• Project BLUEBIRD, a CIA project researching methods of interrogation
• Bluebird, a character in the Adventure Time episode "Ketchup"
• Bluebird Movement, another name for the 2024 Taiwanese legislative reform protests

See also

• L'Oiseau bleu (disambiguation), French for "The Blue Bird"
• Bleubird, stage name of American rapper Jacques Bruna (born 1982)

References in other works

RahXephon

Blue birds appear as symbols and one of the characters is named "Michiru", which is the Japanese name for Mytyl.

Eureka Seven

Three of the cast members were named after the author's name, his surname being divided: Maurice, the eldest of Eureka's children; Maeter, the second oldest; and Linck, the youngest. The book itself also appears briefly in the series being read by one of the characters.

Other references

The Dutch school types Mytyl schools and Tyltyl schools are named after Mytyl and Tyltyl: they are for children with a physical disability and for children with both a physical and mental disability, respectively. The Scouting Nederland section for children with special needs (Extension Scouting) is named: "Blauwe Vogels" (Blue Birds).