Emmy Award®-winner and Tony Award®-nominee Joshua Bergasse, whose credits include Broadway’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and On the Town, TV’s “So You Think You Can Dance”and “Smash,” directs and choreographs the production, which first played Maine’s Ogunquit Playhouse from May 16 through June 9.
Smokey Joe’s Café, Grammy Award®-winning and Tony Award®-nominated, features the songs of songwriting team Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. It features 36 of their classic songs of the past century, including “On Broadway,” “Stand by Me,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Hound Dog,” “Love Potion No. 9,” “Spanish Harlem,”“Yakety Yak,” and “Charlie Brown”—songs that provided hit after hit for icons like Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, The Coasters, The Drifters and other music luminaries.
The cast features Dwayne Cooper (Motown, Hairspray), Emma Degerstedt (Desperate Measures Off-Broadway), John Edwards (Jersey Boys), Dionne D. Figgins (Hot Feet, Memphis), Nicole Vanessa Ortiz (Spamilton Off-Broadway), Kyle Taylor Parker (Kinky Boots, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), Jelani Remy (Disney’s The Lion King), Max Sangerman (Blue Man Group Off-Broadway), and Alysha Umphress (On The Town, American Idiot, The Lion King).
The creative team features set designer Beowulf Boritt, costume designer Alejo Vietti, lighting designer Jeff Croiter and music director Sonny Paladino.
Smokey Joe’s Café begins playing on Friday, July 6, booking through January 6, 2019. For further information and tickets, click here.
Stage 42, 422 West 42nd Street, NYC
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