Baby it's You!
Tickets and Information
SHOW INFORMATION
CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Nov 13, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
Opened Nov 13, 2009
Closed Dec 20, 2009
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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Wrapped in the sensational songs of the 60s, Baby It's You! is the new musical about the groundbreaking girl group, The Shirelles and Florence Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife who discovered them. With the help of African-American songwriter, producer Luther Dixon, Florence took on a male dominated industry and revolutionized pop music. Her company, Scepter Records, created the most important songs in the golden era of rock 'n' roll, from artists including The Isley Brothers, The Kingsmen, Chuck Jackson and Dionne Warwick.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
Pasadena Playhouse
39 S El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101
Founded in 1917, the Pasadena Playhouse, a 686-seat house, produces more than 300 performances per year and is designated the State Theatre of California. It is also listed on the National Registry of Historical Places. Founded by Gilmor Brown and h [...] Read More
39 S El Molino Ave
Pasadena, CA 91101
Founded in 1917, the Pasadena Playhouse, a 686-seat house, produces more than 300 performances per year and is designated the State Theatre of California. It is also listed on the National Registry of Historical Places. Founded by Gilmor Brown and h [...] Read More
WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?
What are other members saying?
RE:Fabulous! Outstanding!
This show was fantastic! The stage was jumping with some of the most talented singers in town. It isnt often that every song in a show is top notch. I loved it so much - Im going again!
Reviewed by mypetard
on Friday, Dec 11th, 2009
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Serious book problems hamper a strong catalog of early 1960s tunes and the efforts of a talented cast in
Baby It's You!, now at the Pasadena Playhouse. The result is a surprisingly uninvolving biography of Florence Greenberg, the Jewish housewife who discovered and fostered the doo-wop group The Shirelles.
It's 1958, and Greenberg (Meeghan Holaway) wants more to her life than carpooling and making a brisket. When her daughter introduces her to four schoolmates with angelic singing voices, she takes the opportunity and spins it into one of the most popular girl groups of the early Rock-n-Roll era. A woman in a man's world, she learns the trade, finds the best writers, and greases the spokes[...]