NewsPHOTO CALL: Original Shirelles Member Shirley Alston Reeves Visits Baby It's You!The original lead singer of The Shirelles, Shirley Alston Reeves, attended Broadway's Baby It’s You! on June 15 where she made a special announcement during the show's curtain call.
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Krissie Fullerton
June 16, 2011
Reeves will join the Broadway musical about the woman who founded the '60s girl group — for post-show concerts for performances July 19-22.
Inspired by the true story of Florence Greenberg, "the woman who in the late 1950s took the male-dominated music industry by storm," Baby It's You! is a new Broadway musical conceived by Floyd Mutrux, directed by Floyd Mutrux and Sheldon Epps, and written by Tony nominated book writers Mutrux and Colin Escott, the team behind Broadway's Million Dollar Quartet.
Here's a look at curtain call:
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Original Shirelles Member Shirley Alston Reeves Visits Baby It's You!
The show at the Broadhurst Theatre features 2011 Tony Award nominee Beth Leavel as Florence Greenberg, with Allan Louis and Geno Henderson in a cast of 12 that features Erica Ash, Kelli Barrett, Kyra Da Costa, Erica Dorfler, Jahi A. Kearse, Barry Pearl, Christina Sajous, Crystal Starr and Brandon Uranowitz.