Lots of laughs and great songs have made this all time favourite based on the hit broadway show one of the most memorable musicals of all time. When rock star and teenage heart throb conrad birdie gets drafted, the nation's teenagers go haywire and conrad's songwriter, albert dick van dyke, faces unemployment. So albert and his girlfriend janet leigh organize a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss from conrad on the ed sullivan show. Kim mcafee ann margret turns out to be the lucky teenager and conrad's whole entourage moves into her quiet, mid western home – much to the chagrin of her ever irritable father paul lynde and her jealous boyfriend bobby rydell. The result is chaos and a series of hilarious romantic complications.