Charles Strouse To Introduce BYE BYE BIRDIE Screening At Film Forum Tonight

Tony-winning composer Charles Strouse is set to introduce the 7:45 pm show of Bye Bye Birdie tonight at Film Forum. 

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Charles Strouse, Tony-winning composer of Broadway musicals Bye Bye Birdie and Annie, will introduce the 7:45 show of BYE BYE BIRDIE this evening. Mr. Strouse will also sign copies of his memoir, Put On A Happy Face, following the show. Copies will be available in the lobby for $20, plus tax.

Starring Ann-Margret, Dick Van Dyke and Janet Leigh, Bye Bye Birdie has been hailed as "one of the unsung musicals of the 1960s!" (Time Out, London). Bye Bye Birdie has been beautifully restored in a dazzling new 35mm color and Scope print. Heartthrob rocker Conrad Birdie has been drafted! Bad enough news for his shrieking teenybopper fans, but as the singer's income power-dives from rock star to Army private, it's the finish for Birdie's songwriter-wannabe agent Dick Van Dyke. But then, thanks to fiancée and ever-faithful secretary Janet Leigh, Birdie's slated to give his "One Last Kiss" to lucky fan Kim McAfee (Ann-Margret) on - what else? - The Ed Sullivan Show!

Adapted from the 1960 Tony-winning Broadway smash (inspired by Elvis' cataclysmic 1958 induction), with a Charles Strouse/Lee Adams score that includes eventual standards "Put on a Happy Face" and "A Lot of Living to Do," plus future Hollywood Squares legend Paul Lynde's hymn to "Ed Sullivan," the frenetic "Telephone Hour," Janet Leigh's hair-raisingly acrobatic romp with red-fezzed lodge members, Ann-Margret's pink toreador-pantsed dance number - and her sizzling rendition of a title tune not in the original. Director Sidney, months after editing had ended, commissioned the title track from the original composers for the near-abstract opening and closing sequences, then fronted the $60,000 expense himself, resulting in Ann-Margret's star-making tour de force. Released in 1963, but set at the end of the 50s, Bye Bye Birdie evokes a now-nostalgic era when show tunes topped the hit parades, variety shows ruled the airwaves, and youth rebellion meant calling your parents by their first names -a year later, Sullivan imported The Beatles. Approx. 112 minutes.

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