Smokey Joe's Cafe...

[alphieboy]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 8:32pm

I love, LOVE this show! I have had the dvd for awhile, and none of it ever gets old! This is such a brilliant show! Some of my favorite songs are:
Kansas City
Fools Fall in Love (reprise)
Your the Boss
Iam a Woman and
I Who Have Nothing.

How do you guys like this musical, and what are your favorite songs?

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 8:33pm

I watched the show for 2 and a half hours waiting for a plot. Then I realized it was a revue, then I didn't like it.

[dietcherryemma]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 8:40pm

My highschool did the show a few years back, which was a challenge because it's a bit racially challenged (Southern school, what can I say... I think the music is great, but i'm not a revue person. I need a plot. There are some amazing songs in the show, though, and its really great to see people remember the songs they grew up with and get really into it.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 8:43pm

I'm thinking of seeing it here in SoCal, as my friend is playing piano...

[alphieboy]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 8:46pm

Your high schooldid it? How cool! I would love if we did it, but that would never happen. Who did you play?

And, yes shira please do see it, seeing it is quite a good show.

[timote316]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:00pm

"I watched the show for 2 and a half hours waiting for a plot. Then I realized it was a revue, then I didn't like it."

I did the exact same thing while watching it at a regional theater. I should have done research beforehand, maybe I could have enjoyed it for what it is.

[shira467]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:06pm

Yeah, that's the problem with some revues -- if you don't realize what it is, you'll sit there frustrated!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:11pm

This was my first Broadway show when our 5th grade field trip was to go to New York City to see a Broadway show, then go to the Baltimore Aquarium.

I didn't know what Broadway was - until the next year in 6th grade, when our school musical was Bye Bye Birdie.

[dietcherryemma]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 9:25pm

When we did it (and I mention again, we were an almost all-white highschool in TN) I did most of the BJ stuff. We got rights to work with the show a bit and create a bit of a storyline, so some of the songs were cut and some other Leiber/Stohler songs were added in (such as the actual song Smokey Joe's Cafe, which was cut in the Broadway show). We also expanded the cast and made some big group numbers out of songs like Jailhouse Rock and Stand By Me. Since my school was all-girls and the all-boys school from across the river came over to do shows, we had waaaay too many girls in the cast, so Woman ended up being a BIG number. It was fun, but I really missed doing a show with a written book.

[wicked4good2]

Posted: 6/10/05 at 11:21pm

i looooove the song "falling" from smokey joe's.

[Jimmyojimmy]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:49am

I love this show too. We did a medley from it at my school in '03 and it was soooooo much fun. I love Don Juan. especially the stool she uses. haha

[BwayTheatre11]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 1:23am

Dance With Me, On Broadway, Neighborhood

Updated On: 6/11/05 at 01:23 AM

[TBone]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 9:37am

Smokey Joes Cafe was always alot of fun. I always enjoyed LOVE ME/DON'T.

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:03am

Yep, like Movin' Out a lot of great songs and fun "concert"! The original Bd'w cast was outstanding... Brenda Braxton, Frederick B. Owens( both, hot!), BJ Crosby etc. The final performance DVD (with Matt Bogart!) is special too. Love BJ's final offering of " Fools Fall in Love". Rent it!

Speaking of BJ, we are producing "An Evening of Jazz Blue Ballads and More" with BJ Crosby & Danny Zolli (JCS) and more at the Eastern PAC Feb. 11, 2006. More details as we get closer.
**shamless plug, but it will be a blast**

correction in place, thanks!

Updated On: 6/11/05 at 10:03 AM

[alphieboy]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:59am

I also love that final rendetion. It is touching. But I believe the song is called "Folls Fall in Love" (reprise)

And I also love the song "Falling".

[JakeB]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:07am

It took 2 and a half hours to realise it was a revue?! Are you serious?

I didn't really care for this show, I felt it would have been much better in an intimate space as a cabaret - it was too overblown for what it was.

[alphieboy]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:39am

Really, I disagree...It was very well recieved as a bigger show.