Bye Bye Birdie was originally titled Let’s Go Steady and billed as a “happy teenage musical with a difference.” Conceived by producer, Edward Padula, who contracted Charles Strouse and Lee Adams. The team eventually sought out Gower Champion as a director/choreographer. Champion did not like the book and the writers were fired. Michael Stewart, who was then brought on, wrote an early version focusing on a couple thinking of divorce. However, Champion wanted something different. It was then that the stories appeared in the paper of rock-and-roll idol Elvis Presley’s draft into the United
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Jacquelyn Whitaker, Michael Miller
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