Ella Perez, left, who played Kim MacAfee, waited for her first kiss from teen idol Conrad Birdie, played by Dylan Pigott, right, in the Baldwin Middle School production of “Bye Bye Birdie,” which was performed three times last week.
Seventh grader Nicolette Carrion played a teenager in the town of Sweet Apple, in the musical number “The Telephone Hour.”
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Eighth grader Kamryn Austin played the role of Rosie Alvarez.
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Dylan Pigott had thousands of adoring fans in the role of Conrad Birdie.
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The MacAfee Family dreamed of being on the Ed Sullivan Show. The students who played them, from left, were Perez, eighth grade, Gabriel Vukelic, sixth grade, Ali Alsaif, eighth grade, and Joshua Davis, eighth grade.
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Baldwin Middle School students — including eighth grader Ella Perez, center — performed the musical “Bye Bye Birdie” last week.
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Baldwin Middle School students turned back the clocks last week and hit the stage to perform the musical classic “Bye Bye Birdie.”
For three performances, middle school students told the story of a rock singer who makes his “farewell” television performance and kisses his biggest fan before he is drafted into the Army.
In the BMS version, Ella Perez played Kim MacAfee, who waits for her first kiss from teen idol Conrad Birdie, played by Dylan Pigott, in front of the television cameras on the Ed Sullivan Show.