2008 One Last Kiss Bye Bye Birdie Broadway T-shirt

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Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with a book by Michael Stewart, lyrics by Lee Adams and music by Charles Strouse.

Originally titled Let’s Go Steady, Bye Bye Birdie is set in 1958. The short story “Dream Man”, authored by Bill Doyle, which appeared in the May 18, 1957 issue of “The Saturday Evening Post” may well have been the genesis of the eventual stageplay. The play book was also influenced by Elvis Presley’s conscription into the United States|draft notice]] into the Army in 1957. The rock star character’s name, “Conrad Birdie”, is word play on the name of Conway Twitty. Twitty is best remembered today for his long career as a country music star, but in the late 1950s, he was one of Presley’s rock ‘n’ roll rivals.