A loving send-up of the 1950s, small-town America, teenagers, and rock & roll, Bye Bye Birdie remains as fresh and vibrant as ever. Teen heartthrob Conrad Birdie has been drafted, so he chooses All-American girl Kim MacAfee for a very public farewell kiss. Featuring a tuneful high-energy score, plenty of great parts for teens, and a hilarious script, Birdie continues to thrill audiences around the world.

Bye Bye Birdie opened on Broadway, April 14, 1960 and played for 607 performances at the Martin Beck Theatre (later at the 54th Street and the Shubert Theatres) starring Chita Rivera as Rose and Dick Van Dyke as Albert. The show played for 268 performances in London at Her Majesty's Theatre. In 2009, it was revived on Broadway at Henry Miller’s Theatre.

The Buchholz Players were formed 35 years ago and have been delivering quality High School Theater Productions for the past three decades. In just the past five years they have produced more than 25 productions, competed in 28 Thespian Festivals, and been invited to perform in the Edinburgh, Scotland Fringe Festival 5 times in 8 years. They are known for taking on shows that other people are afraid to try which led to them becoming the second school in the southeastern US to perform the original version of Chicago, they were the first school in the southeastern US to acquire the rights to Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” the second school in the southeast to perform “Aida,” the first High school in Florida to do “Night of the Living Dead, and they were awarded the National premier of “Evil Dead the musical high school edition.” Their Technical Theater and Technical Theater Honors program is well known in the Gainesville Community as well. Buchholz Tech students can be found on any given day working at the Gainesville Community Theater, The Acrosstown Reparatory Theater, Actors Warehouse or at the High Springs Community Theater.

Their philosophy revolves around the idea that every audience members deserves the highest quality performance they can give every night.