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Article: The Mensches Of Rock And Roll: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller - two
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- The Jewish Week
- Article date:
- March 10, 1995
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Paul Kresh
The Jewish Week
03-10-1995
The Mensches Of Rock And Roll: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller -- two nice. Jewish boys who wrote songs for Elvis Presley -- finally make it to Broadway.
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller expected to be on Broadway more than a dozen years ago.
They finally made it last week.
"Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller" at the Virginia Theater, featuring 40 hits by the famed duo, provides a slick and dazzling retrospective of their work, with panache to spare. A sizzling cast of nine sings and dances under Jerry Zaks' headlong direction. A big band emerges in the second half of the show, and there are clever production numbers like the one inspired by ...
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... ... interjected Mike Stoller, Leiber's writing partner since 1950 ... element there." In person, Leiber and Stoller - one of the greatest ... the original recordings by Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, the Coasters ... I wanted to finish," Leiber told his partner. "The only ...
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