4 ICYMI: Watch the Next On Stage: Season 6 Premiere The cause for this is simple: The audiences for rock shows and the audiences for Broadway musicals are universes apart, especially in the 1950s and ...

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.

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 ...

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The composer of the musicals "Bye Bye Birdie," "Applause" and "Annie" has died. Charles Strouse spent his last hours at home in New York. He was 96. If you did not know his name, you may well know the ...