Smokey Joe’s Café (Musical Review)

2nd UPDATE!! Congratulations to these Regional Award winners:

  • Da'Merius Ford was awarded the Open Jar Institute's National Music Theatre Scholarship for their Broadway Actor Intensive in NYC. He will travel to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. for a week of workshops, master classes, and compete for an even bigger scholarship towards the NYC trip.
  • Deiondre Teagle won best Irene Ryan Partner in the Semi-Final Round!

... and then the NATIONAL Kennedy Center Awards:

  • Smokey Joe's Café' - "Distinguished Production of a Musical" Award
  • Da'Merius Ford - "Distinguished Performance by an Actor in a Musical" Award
  • Keshana Yvette Cook - "Distinguished Performance by an Actress in a Musical" Award
  • Madi White - "Distinguished Performance by an Actress in a Musical" Award.
  • Marlo Griffith - "Distinguished Achievement in Sound Design and Engineering" Award
  • Assistant Professor Cate Wieck - "Distinguished Costume Design" Award

Associate Professor Amy Baker Schwiethale - "Distinguished Director of a Musical" AND "Distinguished Choreography/Movement Direction"

UPDATE: The Wichita State University School of Performing Arts is thrilled to announce that our production of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE has been selected to perform at the Regional Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We will represent Shocker Nation as one of six productions out of a seven state region invited to perform at the Festival!

The School of Performing Arts invites you to join us for a benefit performance of SMOKEY JOE'S CAFE one last time for Wichita audiences in hopes of raising the money needed for travel expenses. Director/Choreographer Amy Baker Schwiethale would also like to invite you to join us after the show for light refreshments and a meet-and-greet with the cast and crew in the Wilner Lounge.

Featuring songs by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Directed and Choreographed by Amy Baker Schwiethale

Smokey Joe’s Café is a rock and roll musical revue featuring the songs of legendary hit makers Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber. The show pays homage to some of the most powerful and recognizable early icons of rock and roll such as The Drifters, The Coasters, Dion of Dion and the Belmonts, and of course, Elvis Presley. Smokey Joe’s Cafe is packed with 39 memorable pop standards like “Hound Dog", “Love Potion #9”, “On Broadway”, and “Stand By Me". The songs are presented by various members of the cast in various combinations, with no dialogue. It opened on Broadway in 1995 and is the longest running revue in Broadway history with 2,036 performances as well as winning the Grammy in 1996 for its Original Broadway Cast Recording. (Rated G)

  • September 24-27, 2015Program button graphic
  • Thursday, Friday & Saturday 7:30 PM; Sunday at 2:00 PM
  • Wilner Auditorium

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