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Mike Stoller

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ComposerLyricist b. 1933

Mike Stoller (b. 1933) is, with Jerry Leiber, half of the pioneering rock-and-roll songwriting team whose catalog formed the basis of the long-running Broadway revue Smokey Joe's Cafe (1995).

Also credited on3 works

Smokey Joe's Cafe
The People in the Picture
Beaches, A New Musical

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In the literature8 passages

  • Stephen Helper and Jack Viertel’s original concept was to have a cast of nine sing three dozen songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. There was an occasional tangential link: after Victor Trent Cook demanded of B. J. Crosby “Treat Me Nice,” she sneeringly responded, “You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog.”ebooks/Filichia, Peter/Strippers, Showgirls, and Sharks - Peter Filichia.txt
  • 67. The 1995 revue Smokey Joe’s Café featured a mainly African American cast but hailed the work of the Jewish rock-and-roll greats Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Black and Blue , a revue of black music from the 1920s and 1930s, played Broadway for slightly over two years from 1988 to 1991, while Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1978) celebrated the mu…ebooks/Hoffman, Warren/Great White Way_ Race and the Broadway Musical, The - Warren Hoffman.txt
  • Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, Louis Prima, John Philip Sousa, Carole Bayer Sager, Melissa Manchester, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Felix Powell, George Asaf, Sigmund Romberg, Oscar Hammerstein II, Cat Stevens, Edgard Varese, Jerry Jeff Walker; Producer, Jules Fisher; Associate Producer, Patty Grubman; Music Arrange…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1978-79, v. 35 (Willis).txt
  • and Lyrics, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ralph Burns, George M. Cohan, Neil Diamond, Bob Haggart, Ray Bauduc, Gil Rodin, Bob Crosby, Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Johnny Mercer, Harry Warren, Louis Prima, John Philip Sousa, Carole Bayer Sager, Melissa Manchester, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Felix Powell, George Asaf, Sigmundtheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1979-80 Season, v. 36 (Willis).txt
  • SMOKEY JOE’S CAFE Music/Lyrics, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; Director, Jerry Zaks; Musical Staging, Joey McKneely; Orchestrations, Steve Margoshes; Conductor/Arranger, Louis St. Louis; Music Coordinator, John Miller; Sets, Heidi Landesman; Costumes, William Ivey Long; Lighting, Timothy Hunter; Sound, Tony Meola; Hair/Make-up, Randy Hous…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1994-95 Season, v. 51 (Willis).txt
  • Music/Lyrics, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller; Director, Jerry Zaks; Musical Staging, Joey McKneely; Orchestrations, Steve Margoshes; Conductor/Arranger, Louis St. Louis; Music Coordinator, John Miller; Sets, Heidi Landesman; Costumes, William Ivey Long; Lighting, Timothy Hunter; Sound, Tony Meola; Hair/Make-up, Randy Houston Mercer; Produc…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 1995-96 Season, v.52 (Willis).txt

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