Three-time Tony Award winner Charles Strouse composed the music for such classics as “Annie,” “Bye Bye Birdie” and “Applause.

and featured Margret’s now iconic performance of the film’s newly added title song, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, “Let’s Settle Down ...

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.

and featured Margret’s now iconic performance of the film’s newly added title song, “Bye Bye Birdie.” Strouse would later win a 1996 Emmy Award for the new song, “Let’s Settle Down,” written with ...

The 1982 film version, which featured Carol Burnett ... and “Bring Back Birdie” (1981), a sequel to “Bye Bye Birdie.” Charles Strouse and Eric Comstock attend the celebration of Charles ...

‘By Bye Birdie’ lifts him upHis Broadway career ... Strouse remembered.The popularity of “Birdie” spawned a film (with Van Dyke, Janet Leigh and Ann-Margret) in 1963 and a television ...

He wrote some of the most enduring musical theater numbers of his era and earned three Tony Awards, a Grammy and an Emmy. The composer Charles Strouse in 2002. His Broadway hits included “Annie ...

The 1982 film version, which featured Carol Burnett ... and “Bring Back Birdie” (1981), a sequel to “Bye Bye Birdie.” Yet even his flops contained impressive music, particularly “Rags ...

Bye Bye Birdie, about a pop star who was drafted to ... which Dick Van Dyke performed in the musical (and in the 1963 film version). The song was covered by such artists as Nancy Wilson, Johnny ...