





A vintage Bye Bye Birdie promotional T-shirt 🧡🖤
Bye Bye Birdie is a musical, popularized by the 1963 movie starring Ann Margaret and Dick Van Dyke. The play is loosely based on a 1950s singer who’s your picturesque greaser crooner (Conrad Birdie) who is drafted into the war, completely detailing his career and that of his songwriter.
To turn things around, a new hit tune is written for the famous crooner to sing on national television to a lucky teenage girl (played by Ann Margaret).
The musical is a fun watch (I mean c’mon it’s Ann Margaret!) with catchy songs and your prototypical 1950s shenanigans.
I had a small part in a production of Bye Bye Birdie in my early high school years and while I won’t remember much about the backstage shenanigans, or having to sing How Lovely to be a Woman a gazillion times to prepare for my audition, but I do remember my very first kiss was offstage with the lucky kid who got to play Conrad Birdie 💋