Top stories for the week Aug 15, 2008
While Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical has a slight plot girl dreams of becoming a songwriter, writes some hits, meets a boy, gets married (albeit temporarily) Greenwich s songs, which include some timeless 60s classics such as Be My Baby, And Then He Kissed Me and Chapel of Love are a joy to hear live. TRURO When Kevin Rice, artistic director at the Payomet Performing Arts Center in North Truro, took on the task of writing a play about the relationship between Russian writer... (Yarmouth Register, MA)
Ames Community Theater presents 'Leader of the Pack' Jun 13, 2008
" Where: ACTORS Studio, 120 Abraham Drive. When: 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, June 13, 14, 20, 21, 27 and 28; 2 p.m. Sundays, June 15, 22 and 29. Admission: $18 adults, $15 students and seniors; available at Gallery 319, 314 Main St., or call 292-2073. Follow the "Leader of the Pack" down to the "Chapel of Love" in the Ames Community Theater production of "Leader of the Pack: The Ellie Greenwich Musical ... That was not Ellie Greenwich," Lubka said. Zack Ford, who is the music director for... (Ames Daily Tribune, IA)
New Christmas standards: Are you listening? Dec 13, 2007
By Brian Mansfield, Special for USA TODAY Ellie Greenwich was riding in an elevator in New York's Brill Building in 1963 when she overheard two fellow passengers discussing songwriter Johnny Marks. "Do you know how much he's made on Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?" Greenwich recalls one saying to the other. (USA Today -- Life)
Critic's corner Dec 4, 2007
We watch Illeana Douglas's singer-composer (think Carole King or Ellie Greenwich) make her tear-stained way from the late '50s to the early '70s, turning heartbreak into hit songs. (R; runs on Encore through Dec. 27). (Boston Globe)
Nicole Is 'Golden' Oct 30, 2007
Like King and Gerry Goffin, Diamond, Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Ellie Greenwich and Jeff Barry, Sedaka and Greenfield they all wrote for publisher Don Kirschner came from traditions of Broadway, jazz, vaudeville, big bands. They were also all either trained musicians or prodigies, quite unlike the young people who make it big today. (Fox News)
Songwriter's life is focus of show Jul 20, 2007
The life of still-living, still-working songwriter Ellie Greenwich, 66, of New York. Greenwich, best known for a myriad of 1960s tunes including "Be My Baby," "Da Doo Ron Ron" and "Leader of the Pack," went through good and bad, a nervous breakdown, divorce. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
