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Bye Bye Birdie tells the story of a world-famous rock singer named Conrad Birdie who has been drafted into the army. His agent is on his last wits and finally gets a hit by getting Birdie to sing his song "One Last Kiss" for one girl in a nation-wide contest.
The musical, on its original Broadway run, ran for 607 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre and 268 performances in London at Her Majesty's Theatre. There have been two video productions. The first one stars Dick Van Dyke, and the more recent (1995) stars Jason Alexander. The more recent version has a revised version of Spanish Rose and two new songs: Let's Settle Down and A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore. The 1995 version is closer to the actual musical script than the Dick Van Dyke version.
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