Bye Bye Birdie premiered on Broadway in 1960. The musical, with a book by Michael Stewart, was based on Elvis Presley’s headline-making draft notice into the Army in 1957. Songwriters Charles ...

"Bye Bye Birdie" was also a 1963 Golden Globe-nominated ... The story was inspired by the incredible popularity of Elvis Presley and his induction into the Army in 1957.

Bobby Banas, the actor, dancer and choreographer who played Joyboy in West Side Story and worked in such other famed movie musicals as Bye Bye Birdie ... Brown (1964), Elvis Presley's Girl ...

BOOM!; the 1960 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical, Bye Bye Birdie; and the 1982 Tony Award®-winning Best Musical, Nine. "I am deeply humbled by the way Kennedy Center audiences and the entire ...

Dick began his acting career on Broadway by appearing as Albert Peterson in Bye Bye Birdie, for which he won a Tony Award in 1961. He became most known for the Dick Van Dyke Show, which ran from ...

Bobby Rydell, a pompadoured heart-throb of early rock’n’roll who was a star of radio, television and the movie musical “Bye Bye Birdie ... who emerged after Elvis Presley and before ...