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Smokey Joe's Cafe : the songs of Leiber and Stoller

Title: Smokey Joe's Cafe : the songs of Leiber and Stoller [videorecording] / Richard Frankel, Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Jujamcyn Theaters/Jack Viertel, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre/Gordon Davidson, presents ; words and music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ; musical staging, Joey McKneely ; directed by Jerry Zaks ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
Publication: New York, c1996.

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Description

2 videocassettes (106 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)

Summary

Revue of songs written by the team of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller either alone or with other collaborators, mostly during the 1950s and '60s.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Musicals.

Note

"All of the songs in 'Smokey Joe's Cafe' were written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller except 'Spanish Harlem' written by Phil Spector and Jerry Leiber. Messrs. Leiber and Stoller wish to acknowledge and thank the following writers who collaborated with them on various songs in the show: Ben E. King, Doc Pomus, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, Kent Harris, Ralph Dino & John Sembello and Carlo Donida & 'Mogol'"--Program.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Credits (note)

Scenery design, Heidi Landesman (A/K/A Heidi Ettinger) ; costume design, William Ivey Long ; lighting design, Timothy Hunter ; sound design, Tony Meola ; orchestrations, Steve Margoshes ; arranged and conducted by Louis St. Louis ; prod. supervisor, Steven Beckler ; prod. stage manager, Kenneth Hanson ; original concept, Stephen Helper and Jack Viertel ; co-conceived with additional musical staging, Otis Sallid.

Performer (note)

Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Brenda Braxton, Victor Trent Cook, B. J. Crosby, Pattie Darcy Jones, DeLee Lively, Frederick B. Owens, Michael Park.

Event (note)

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Virginia Theatre, New York, N.Y., June 5, 1996.

Funding (note)

Recorded with the financial assistance of the L & S Broadway Company, producers of Smokey Joe's Cafe.

Call Number

NCOV 1937

OCLC

NYPG04-F483

Title

Smokey Joe's Cafe : the songs of Leiber and Stoller [videorecording] / Richard Frankel, Thomas Viertel, Steven Baruch, Jujamcyn Theaters/Jack Viertel, Rick Steiner, Frederic H. Mayerson, and Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson Theatre/Gordon Davidson, presents ; words and music by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller ; musical staging, Joey McKneely ; directed by Jerry Zaks ; [video director] Stucker ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.

Imprint

New York, c1996.

Access

Permission required.

Credits

Scenery design, Heidi Landesman (A/K/A Heidi Ettinger) ; costume design, William Ivey Long ; lighting design, Timothy Hunter ; sound design, Tony Meola ; orchestrations, Steve Margoshes ; arranged and conducted by Louis St. Louis ; prod. supervisor, Steven Beckler ; prod. stage manager, Kenneth Hanson ; original concept, Stephen Helper and Jack Viertel ; co-conceived with additional musical staging, Otis Sallid.

Cast

Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Brenda Braxton, Victor Trent Cook, B. J. Crosby, Pattie Darcy Jones, DeLee Lively, Frederick B. Owens, Michael Park.

Event

Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Virginia Theatre, New York, N.Y., June 5, 1996.

Funding

Recorded with the financial assistance of the L & S Broadway Company, producers of Smokey Joe's Cafe.

Added Author

Frankel, Richard, 1954- producer.

Viertel, Thomas, producer.

Baruch, Steven, producer.

Viertel, Jack, producer.

Steiner, Rick, producer.

Mayerson, Frederic H., producer.

Davidson, Gordon, 1933-2016, producer.

Leiber, Jerry. Smokey Joe's Cafe.

Stoller, Mike, co-lyricist.

Stoller, Mike, co-composer.

McKneely, Joey, choreographer.

Zaks, Jerry, 1946- director.

Ettinger, Heidi, set designer.

Long, William Ivey, costume designer.

Hunter, Tim, lighting designer.

Meola, Tony, sound designer.

Margoshes, Steven, orchestrations.

St. Louis, Louis, arranger of music.

St. Louis, Louis, conductor.

Beckler, Steve, production personnel.

Hanson, Kenneth, production stage manager.

Helper, Stephen.

Sallid, Otis, musical staging.

Ard, Ken, performer.

Bailey, Adrian, performer.

Braxton, Brenda, performer.

Cook, Victor Trent, performer.

Crosby, B. J., performer.

Jones, Pattie Darcy, performer.

Lively, DeLee, performer.

Owens, Frederick B., performer.

Park, Michael, 1968- performer.

Stucker, Richard, videographer.

Corwin, Betty L.

Jujamcyn Theaters, producer.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles, producer.

Ahmanson Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.), producer.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.

L & S Broadway Company.

Research Call Number

NCOV 1937

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