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Bye Bye Birdie is a stage musical with music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, based upon a book by Michael Stewart. Originally titled Let's Go Steady , Bye Bye Birdie is set in 1958. The play's book was influenced by Elvis Presley being drafted into the Army in 1957.
Bye Bye Birdie is a 1963 American musical romantic comedy film directed by George Sidney from a screenplay by Irving Brecher, based on Michael Stewart's book of the 1960 musical of the same name. It also features songs by composer Charles Strouse and lyricist Lee Adams , and a score by Johnny Green .
Strouse won Emmy Awards for music in television adaptions of Bye Bye Birdie and Annie. He is also the recipient of the 1999 ASCAP Foundation Richard Rodgers Award [22] and the Oscar Hammerstein Award. He is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame (in 2001) [23] and the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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