SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE: THE SONGS OF LEIBER AND STOLLER (WIDESCREEN) [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Music, Musical
• Plot: You know that rock & roll has staying power when it can survive even the homogenization that comes from being performed on Broadway. So it is with this live performance of a Broadway revue that celebrated the music of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, one of the finest songwriting teams ever to have hits with Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, the Drifters, the Coasters, and everyone else who mattered in the early days of rock. Everything from 'Hound Dog' to 'Charlie Brown,' from 'I'm a Woman' to 'On Broadway' is included in this video recording of the Broadway hit. But despite energetic performances by a cast of five men and four women, there's little of the raw and plenty of the preprocessed in a show that wouldn't be out of place in a Las Vegas showroom. They're still great songs--and even these slick performances can't diminish that. --Marshall Fine
• Cast: Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Matt Bogart, Brenda Braxton, Victor Trent Cook, B.J. Crosby, DeLee Lively, Deb Lyons, Frederick B. Owens, Rachel Tyler, Virginia Woodruff, Don Roy King, Otis Sallid
• Director: Don Roy King
• Runtime: 1:42
• Company: Broadway Video Entertainment
• Media Format: Movie