Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber & Stoller
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through June 26
The Pollard Theatre
120 W. Harrison, Guthrie
www.thepollard.org
282-2800
$18.75-$25
It’s hard to believe that a single songwriting team could create such an impressive string of pop-rock standards as “Neighborhood,” “Dance with Me,” “Kansas City” and “Fools Fall in Love.” And “On Broadway,” “Yakety Yak,” “Charlie Brown” and “Hound Dog.” Oh, did I mention “Little Egypt,” “Love Potion #9,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Stand by Me”?
And those are just slightly more than one-fourth of about 40 tunes in the jukebox musical “Smokey Joe’s Caf
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2010.