Smokey Joe’s Cafe
An all-new version of the record-breaking Broadway hit returns to NYC!
Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller made history as Broadway’s longest-running musical revue. This Grammy® Award-winning and Tony Award®-nominated smash features 40 of the greatest songs of the past century. These showstopping classics include “On Broadway,” “Stand by Me,” “Jailhouse Rock,” “Hound Dog,” “Love Potion No. 9,” “Spanish Harlem,” “Yakety Yak,” and “Charlie Brown.” Smokey Joe’s Cafe celebrates the music of the legendary songwriting duo, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. Their generation-defining songs provided hit after hit for icons like Elvis Presley, Ben E. King, The Coasters, and The Drifters.
The show features a wide-ranging catalog that celebrates the humor, passion, and heartbreak of everyday life. And now, this classic musical returns to thrill a new generation of theatergoers with its enduring themes and searing emotions.
Directed and choreographed by Emmy® Award-winner and Tony Award®-nominee Joshua Bergasse, whose credits include Broadway’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and On the Town, Fox’s “So You Think You Can Dance” and NBC’s “Smash.”