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Jeremy Corbyn has tabled a motion of no Having long been stuck in a sort of romantic limbo for eight years, she longs for the Albert she once knew, an aspiring English teacher, before he wrote Conrad Birdie's first hit and abandoned those plans to pursue the seedier music industry "An English Teacher".
Rose's plan is to have Birdie sing "One Last Kiss" a song she assigns Albert to write on the spot and give one lucky girl, chosen randomly from his fan club, a real "last kiss" on The Ed Sullivan Show before going into the Army. Kim reflects on how happy she is with her maturity, believing at 15 she has fully reached adulthood "How Lovely to Be a Woman".
She quits the Conrad Birdie fan club over the phone because of the new milestone happening in her life. Her best friend Ursula is shocked. Kim reconsiders when, after a lengthy phone conversation with Ursula, she receives the phone call telling her she has been chosen to be Birdie's last kiss before going into the armed forces. A crowd of teenage girls sees them off at the New York City train station, although one girl is sad because she thinks that by the time Conrad gets out of the army, she will be too old for him.
Albert advises her to be optimistic "Put on a Happy Face". Soon, tabloid reporters arrive with questions about the seedy details of Conrad's personal life, but Rosie, Albert, and the girls answer for him, hoping to protect his reputation and bankability "Normal American Boy". Conrad receives a hero's welcome in Sweet Apple, and Hugo worries that Kim likes Conrad more than she likes him, but Kim assures Hugo that he is the only one she loves "One Boy".
Conrad shocks the town's parents and drives the teenage girls crazy with his performance of "Honestly Sincere", which causes all of the girls including Edna, the mayor's wife to faint. Conrad becomes a guest in the MacAfee house and irritates Kim's father, Harry, by being rude and selfish. Albert's overbearing mother, Mae, comes to Sweet Apple to break up her son's relationship with Rosie she objects to Rosie's Hispanic heritage. She introduces Albert to Gloria Rasputin, a curvy blonde she met on the bus who could replace Rosie as his secretary.
Gloria, a tap dancer, secretly hopes that a connection with Albert could be her way into show business. Mae sings " Swanee River " as Gloria tap-dances usually depicted as her making a fool of herself.
Albert gives Gloria a typing job. Rosie is furious and fantasizes about violent ways to murder Albert "One Hundred Ways Ballet" , but instead comes up with a better idea: On the broadcast, Conrad sings "One Last Kiss" and as he leans in to kiss Kim, Hugo runs onstage and punches him in the face, knocking Conrad unconscious.
Rosie dumps Albert, and Albert, trying to cover for the mishaps of the evening, leads a chorus of "Normal American Boy". Conrad, with no visible effects from being knocked out, decides he wants to go out and have a good time on his last night as a civilian, and encourages the Sweet Apple teens to party "A Lot of Livin' to Do".
Kim sneaks out of her house and joins her friends. Conrad, Kim, and all the teenagers, except Hugo, head for the Ice House, "where people go when they want to be alone. Maude sees that he's underage and refuses to serve him. When Harry discovers Kim has run away, he and Doris lament how disobedient kids are these days "Kids".
Rosie ends up at Maude's Roadside Retreat and starts flirting with other men, but Albert phones her and begs her to return to him "Baby, Talk to Me". Rosie interrupts a Shriners meeting in Maude's private dining room. She flirts with all the Shriners, and they begin a wild dance. Hugo and Albert rescue Rosie from the crazed Shriners, and Albert finally stands up to his mother, telling her to go home.
Mae leaves, but not before lamenting the sacrifices she made for him "A Mother Doesn't Matter Anymore". Hugo tells the MacAfees and the other parents that the teenagers have gone to the Ice House, and they all declare that they don't know what's wrong with their kids "Kids Reprise". Randolph joins in, stating that his older sister and the other teens are "so ridiculous and so immature".
The adults and the police arrive at the Ice House and arrest Conrad for attempted statutory rape. Kim, who unconvincingly claimed to be in her late 20s to Conrad, claims she was intimidated and gladly returns to Hugo. After a reconciliation with Albert, Rosie tells Mae that she will marry Albert despite Mae's racist objections, and despite being a natural-born American citizen from Allentown, Pennsylvania , she will deliberately play up her Hispanic heritage if it annoys Mae that much "Spanish Rose".
Albert bails Conrad out of jail and arranges for him to sneak out of town dressed as a middle-aged woman, presumably so he can report for Army induction as scheduled; in turn, Conrad offers Albert a lifetime contract for bailing him out. Albert gets Mae to leave Sweet Apple on the same train, getting Conrad and his mother out of his life for good.
Albert tells Rosie they're not going back to New York; they're going to Pumpkin Falls, Iowa , a small town in need of a married English teacher. Albert professes that everything is rosy with Rosie "Rosie" , and they go off together happily engaged. During pre-production, Chita Rivera took the role of Rosie after both Carol Haney and Eydie Gorme turned it down, and the character's last name was changed from "Grant" to "Alvarez". That production ran for performances.
It closed after 31 previews and four performances. The Roundabout Theatre Company 's limited-run Broadway revival began previews at Henry Miller's Theatre on September 10, , opened to unanimously negative reviews on October 15, , [17] and was scheduled to close January 10, before it was extended until April 25, Although Longbottom spoke extensively about how the show was being revised and refined for the revival, [21] there were no interpolations from the film or TV adaptations of the show barring the title tune written for the film, which was used as a finale.
Bye Bye Birdie was first adapted for film in Jesse Pearson played Conrad Birdie. The film is credited with making Ann-Margret a superstar during the mids, leading to her appearing with the real Elvis Presley in Viva Las Vegas Several significant changes were made in the plot and character relationships in the film version. Albert is not Birdie's agent but a talented research chemist who is struggling as a songwriter only to please his mother, who is overbearing and insensitive, but not racist as in the musical. He contributed to Birdie's initial success, and therefore Birdie "owes" him a favor.
The film version includes an additional character, a suave English teacher who flirts with Rosie. She plays up to him in several scenes after Albert has made her angry by caving in to his mother. The positioning and context of several songs were changed as well. Kim also opens and closes the film version singing the title song, "Bye Bye, Birdie", a song written for the film.
The film version ends on a brighter and lighter note than the stage musical. Conrad is not arrested but Hugo knocks him out with a single punch "live" on The Ed Sullivan Show and wins Kim's heart.
Albert's mother shows up after the broadcast with Charles F. Maude the bartender , informs Albert and Rosie that she has married him, and gives Albert and Rosie her blessing for their long-postponed wedding. Van Dyke and other members of the Broadway production were unhappy with the film adaptation due to the focus shift to Kim.
Van Dyke stated that Birdie was "a romp'" on Broadway, but they "Hollywood-ized" the movie. Tyne Daly played Mae Peterson. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version , several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes.
The title song "Bye Bye Birdie", written for the film and sung by Ann-Margret , is re-arranged and rewritten as a quintet for Ursula and the Sweet Apple Birdie fan club girls at the soda shop.