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Conrad Birdie's pompadour.
"I think I have maybe 13-14
lines, tops," says Mr. Kudisch,
who grew sideburns for the
part. "Because I don't say
much, I have a lot of freedom
with other kinds of expres-
sion: walking, facial expres-
sions, singing. It's really
tough to stand up on the
stage and do nothing and let
that work for you!'
Although Birdie is in the ti-
tle of the show, the character
is considered a supporting
role, although he's crucial to
the witty script by Michael
Stewart and the score by
Charles Strouse and Lee
Adams.
Before Birdie is dispatched
to boot camp, his manager,
Albert, who is quitting show
business, decides to go out
with a bang by staging a
lucrative stunt that puts an
Ohio teenager named Kim
MacAfee on the receiving end
of one last civilian kiss from
Conrad — to be televised on
"The Ed Sullivan Show" via
remote from her hometown of
Sweet Apple.
What happens between
Albert, his clinging mother
and his girlfriend — to say
nothing of the confused
parents and kids of Sweet Ap-
ple — is what Bye Bye Birdie
is really all about.
Mr. Kudisch won the role
after auditioning twice for
casting directors who initial-
ly dismissed his resume
because it showed limited
musical credits.
For the first open audition,
he sang a non-Birdie song and
read from the script. When he
made it to the call-back audi-
tion a month later, he read for
Gene Saks and sang "Sin-
cere," one of the purposely sil-
ly rock songs from the score.
The next day he was told he
got the part.
In the show, Birdie sings
three songs: "Sincere," "A Lot
of Livin' lb Do" and the
hilarious "One Last Kiss,"
which stretches the word
"baby" into 14 syllables.
In the rock'n'roll perfor-
mance sequences, when Bir-
die is not in his street clothes,
Mr. Kudisch wears a gold
lame jumpsuit similar to the
getup actor Dick Gautier
wore in the Broadway
original.
"It fits tighter than my
underwear ever did," says Mr.
Kudisch. "I hate the outfit
because it's so tight and so.
hot — I can't breathe in the
thing. But it's everyone's
favorite because it's that total
Elvis kind of costume!'
Elvis, of course, didn't dress
that gaudily until the late
'60s and '70s, so where did the
gold lame idea come from in
1960?