Smokey Joe's Cafe Musical Lyrics

Songs have been written by M. Stoller & J. Leiber. The premiere of the revue was in November 1994 in Los Angeles’ UCLA James Doolittle Theatre. The histrionics has been staged up to mid-January 1995. The production implemented director J. Zaks & choreographer J. McKneely. In the play was this cast: K. Ard, A. Bailey, B. Braxton, V. T. Cook, B. J. Crosby, P. D. Jones, D. Lively, F. B. Owens & R. Torti. Try-outs began in Virginia Theatre in February 1995. Revue was holding on Broadway from March 1995 to January 2000 with 25 preliminaries and very impressive 2036 regular performances. Director was J. Zaks and choreographer was J. McKneely. The cast consisted of: B. Braxton, A. Bailey, P. D. Jones, B. Daye, K. Morrow, A. Nixon, M. Pege, B. E. King, T. Orlando, P. Tillis & G. Knight.

The London premiere took place in mid-October 1996 in the Prince of Wales Theatre. Revue showed up to start of October 1998, under the direction of J. Zaks & J. McKneely. The show included this cast: A. Bailey, V. T. Cook, D. Lyons, B. J. Crosby, D. Lively & S. Pope. In 1996 and in 1998 were held US national tours. In July 2008, in Pittsburgh’s Bendeum Center were showed 8 performances. In the revue were involved: P. Boykin, T. Burrell, R. Feder, B. Gaynor, D. Lyons, D. Walton & H. White. From September to October 2012, production was held in the Franklin Theatre. Production was under the direction of M. Logan & choreographer E. Tello. The revue had such cast: M. Doolittle, A. Ramirez, L. Hodges, R. Greenawalt, L. Matula, H. Hubert & J.-M. McGaha. In July 2014, the show was hosted by Gateway Performing Arts Center. Staging prepared director and choreographer C. Walker. Review was staged in 10 countries. The show has been nominated for several awards.
Release date: 1995
Last Update:July, 13th 2016