Bye Bye Birdie
Original Broadway Cast, 1960 (Columbia/Sony) Here is pure pleasure. Bye Bye Birdie, with a book by Michael Stewart, managed to satirize the Elvis Presley craze, racial prejudice, the generation gap, the Shriners, and so on, while retaining a thoroughly plausible air of innocence. The cast is ideal: Dick Van Dyke has an easy charm and … Continue reading Bye Bye Birdie →