Bye, Bye, Birdie Costume Rentals
A comic musical satire set in the late 1950's in Sweet Apple, Ohio & NYC
Charles Strouse, music - Lee Adams, lyric - Michael Stewart, book
1959
the drafting of a rock & roll star (Elvis Presly) into the US Army
Design Elements
exaggerated period elementsPlot Synopsis
Singing idol Conrad Birdie meets the clean-cut kids of Sweet Apple on a publicity stunt cooked up by his agents where he is to be shown kissing one of the local girls on the Ed Sullivan TV show prior to his induction into the Army. Problems with a jealous boyfriend, an exasperated father, the agent's meddlesome mother, and a relationship between the two agents all contribute to the story.