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As a teenage member of the Jivettes during the late 1950s, Ellie dreams of hearing her songs played on the radio, but her plans are put on the back burner by a mother who insists she finish high school and pursue a degree in education so she'll have a means of supporting herself. While attending Queens College, she finds work in the music industry's temple, Manhattan's Brill Building, where she meets Gus Sharkey (a thinly-veiled caricature of Phil Spector) and fellow aspiring songwriter Jeff Barry. After a whirlwind courtship, the two wed and begin to churn out hits for the Ronettes, the Crystals, the Shangri-Las, Darlene Love, Connie Francis, and Lesley Gore, among others. In 1965, at the pinnacle of their partnership, Jeff wants to start a family, whereas Ellie would rather keep working than settle down as a housewife/mother, so he divorces her. They remain professional partners for another year, but when her ex-husband remarries, Ellie falls into a downward spiral of depression and eventually suffers a nervous breakdown. The show then fast-forwards to the mid-1980s, showing off a self-confident and successful Ellie who is in control of her life.
| Leader of the Pack musical lyrics list: |
• SYNOPSIS
• Act 1
• Be My Baby
• Wait 'til My Bobby Gets Home
• A . . . My Name Is Ellie
• Jivette Boogie Beat
• Why Do Lovers Break Each Other's Hearts
• Today I Met the Boy I'm Gonna Marry
• I Wanna Love Him So Bad
• Do Wah Diddy
• And Then He Kissed Me
• Hanky Panky
• Not Too Young To Get Married
• Chapel Of Love
• The Songwriter's Medley
• Act 2
• Baby I Love You
• Leader of the Pack
• Look of Love
• Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)
• I Can Hear Music
• Rock of Rages
• Keep It Confidential
• Da Doo Ron Ron
• What a Guy
• Maybe I Know
• River Deep, Mountain High
• We're Gonna Make It After All
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