Tony-winning Broadway composer who wrote the music for Annie and Bye Bye Birdie Like his fellow Broadway composers Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, Charles Strouse, who has died aged 96, had a classical music education. But his breakthrough hit " for which he won his first Tony award " with lyrics by his early career collaborator, Lee Adams, was Bye Bye Birdie (1960), a satirical take on the new teenage cultu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AM on May 30, 2025