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Smokey Joe's Cafe arrives "Direct from Broadway" for another thrilling performance! Relive rock's glory days as the Tony Award-nominated Broadway smash brings down the house with 39 chart-toppers by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller. The original cast recording of Smokey Joe's Cafe also received a Grammy Award. From "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" all the way to "Spanish Harlem" and "Kansas City," the greatest tunes of the '50s and '60s come alive in a high-energy performance that celebrates first kisses and last dances, cool songs, and red-hot rock and roll! Starring the original Tony Award-nominated Broadway cast. 103 minutes.

Smokey Joe's Cafe - The Songs of Leiber and Stoller (2001) DVD

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

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