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Article: Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller. (Doolittle Theater, Hollywood, California)
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- Los Angeles Magazine
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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It was way back in 1866 when the New York Academy of Music burned down and left theater producer Henry C. Jarrett with something of a problem. The ballet company he'd booked had already set sail from Paris. In desperation, he turned to William Wheatley, owner of Niblo's Garden Theater, who was about to present The Black Crook, a new melodrama about an alchemist who cuts a deal with the devil. Jarrett reputedly convinced Wheatley to combine the attractions, the result being a show in which the devil story took on a sort of fairy-tale whimsy, with dancers in flesh-colored tights tour jete-ing through Hades while singing pop ditties with titles like "You Naughty, Naughty Men." ...
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April 12, 2008 ;
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... ... its jukebox format, the revival of "Smokey Joe's Cafe" at the evolving Bethesda Theatre ... quite attained smash-hit status, "Smokey Joe's Cafe" popularized a type of musical ... fashioned from the pop tunes of Abba. "Smokey Joe's Cafe," however, is sort of the ...
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