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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. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p222
Smokey Joe's Cafe (1995, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) was described as antiseptic industrial-revue-style fare. book:showtime-a-history-of-the-broadway-musical-theatre-larry-stempel#p679
Joey McKneely, the young favorite of Jerome Robbins, has choreographed striking productions of Smokey Joe's Cafe and The Life. book:broadway-the-golden-years-jerome-robbins-and-the-great-long-robert-emmet-new-yor#p298
SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE 2,036 performances Opened March 2, 1995; Closed January 16, 2000 book:theatre-world-2003-04-season-v-60-willis#p292
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. book:today-in-history-musicals-today-in-history-stollenwerk-joe-1973-today-in-history#p267
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