Bye Bye Birdie was originally titled 'Let's Go Steady' before being renamed after the character Conrad Birdie, a play on the name of Conway Twitty, a real-life rock 'n' roll rival of Elvis Presley.

Lee Adams, the 99-year-old lyricist of “Bye Bye Birdie,” doesn’t remember much about creating the show in 1960, but he can quote the New York Times review that came out during the opening night ...

Bye Bye Birdie (1995) is a musical comedy film that serves as a remake of the popular 1960 stage musical of the same name. It follows the chaos surrounding the impending army induction of ...

Charles Strouse, a composer whose hits on the Broadway shows “Annie” and “Bye Bye Birdie” earned him three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy, died on Thursday. He was 96. Strouse’s death at his home ...

Charles Strouse, a Tony-, Grammy-, and Emmy-winning composer known for Broadway's Annie and Bye Bye Birdie, has died. He was 96. Strouse died at his home in New York City on Thursday, a spokesman for ...

Van Dyke is best-known as the star of The Dick Van Dyke Show, the 1961-66 sitcom that forever raised the bar for situation comedy, proving that a sitcom could be smart, sophisticated and sexy. But Van ...