Smokey Joe's Café
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 13, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
Opened Dec 13, 2008
Closed Jan 4, 2009
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Weddington Street Productions in association with Corky Hale Productions presents Leiber and Stoller's award winning musical Smokey Joe's Café. Jeffrey Polk directs and choreographs, with musical direction by Daryl Archibald.
Audiences will be transported back to the days of do-wop and drive-ins. This Grammy Award winning musical features every hit created by the Top 40 song writing team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Featuring the solid gold singles of Elvis, The Coasters, Ben E. King, The Drifters and many more. The production showcases 39 pop standards - including some of the most memorable rock n' roll and rythmn and blues songs of the 20th Century. The songs include "Hound Dog," "Jailhouse Rock," "Yakety Yak," "Love Potion Number 9," "Stand By Me," "Kansas City," and "On Broadway."
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
El Portal Theatre
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Parking Information: Free parking behind the theatre at Lankershim Elementary School on Bakman Ave. No photography or recording equipment of any kind allowed
5269 Lankershim Blvd
North Hollywood, CA 91601
Parking Information: Free parking behind the theatre at Lankershim Elementary School on Bakman Ave. No photography or recording equipment of any kind allowed
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Smokey Joe's Cafe, the popular and entertaining revue of the smooth stylings of songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller now at the El Portal Theatre, still snaps with familiar songs to which many audience members grew up listening. They evoke nostalgia for the heydays of malt shops, drive-ins, and varsity football games, yet their lyrics feature deceptively clever wit such as "You're gonna need an ocean of calamine lotion" in "Poison Ivy."
In Jeffrey Polk's production, each song is a mini story, nicely conveyed by the performances. Couples fall in love in "Dance With Me," break up in "There Goes My Baby," and communicate jealousy in "Hound Dog."
The cast is uniformly charismatic, and eac[...]