The run closed January 16, 2000
- Opened
- 1995
- Closed
- January 16, 2000
- Performances
- 2,036
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- —
Of the 368 productions we hold that opened in the 1990s and record a performance count, this is the 7th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it28 named
Adrian Bailey
Victor Trent Cook
Pattie Darcy Jones
Frederick B Owens
Lesley Gore
Gladys Knight
Tony Orlando
Lou Rawls
Rick Springfield
Pam Tillis
James Beeks
Matt Bogart
Terri Dixon
Colleen Hawks
D Atra Hicks
Deb Lyons
Christia Leigh Mantzke
Robert Neary
Destan Owens
Natasha Rennalls
Devin Richards
Jerry Tellier
6 of these 28 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 22 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Jerry Zaks
- Choreographer
- Joey McKneely
- Orchestrations
- Steve Margoshes
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Tony Awards 0 from 1 nomination
| Best Musical | Nominated |
Around this production
At 2,036 performances, it was the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history at the time of its closing.
- Smokey Joe's Cafe, a revue featuring the hit 1950s-1960s songs of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller was praised for its brilliant performers and dancing. It dazzled for 2,036 performances, making it the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history and the Virginia Theatre's longest-running show. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 222
- Smokey Joe's Cafe (1995, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) was described as antiseptic industrial-revue-style fare. Showtime A History of the Broadway Musical Theatre Larry Stempel, p. 679
- Joey McKneely, the young favorite of Jerome Robbins, has choreographed striking productions of Smokey Joe's Cafe and The Life. Broadway the Golden Years Jerome Robbins and the Great Long Robert Emmet New Yor, p. 298
- SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE 2,036 performances Opened March 2, 1995; Closed January 16, 2000 Theatre World 2003 04 Season V 60 Willis, p. 292
- He then went on to Smokey Joe's Cafe and The Civil War, as well as revivals of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Little Shop of Horrors, La Cage Aux Folks, and his Tony-winning Guys and Dolls. Today In History Musicals Today In History Stollenwerk Joe 1973 Today In History, p. 267
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Smokey Joe's Cafe at all.
- No show page for Smokey Joe's Cafe. The work is here as a title and a year, and nothing more has been gathered about it.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.