Word: shoppin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anyway, the Christmas and Easter crowd turned the ringers off their cell phones and sat through the 90 minute ordeal. Don't worry, the cuff-linked Ivy crowd didn't throw all their $50 into the collection plate. They had plenty dough left over for a little post-worship shoppin' courtesy of Newbury Street...
Smokey Joe's Cafe is as colorful and jaunty as the Day-Glo zoot suit that comes to life and struts through the Shoppin' for Clothes number. Choreographer Joey McKneely gives the performers a killer aerobic workout. When they're not executing brisk parodies of the goofy-cool footwork done by every backup group in the '50s, they are sexily slow dancing to L&S's low-tempo stuff or, in a gorgeous version of Spanish Harlem, bringing ballet to the barrio. These cats can sing too, both as solo stunners-check out Victor Trent Cook's rabid virtuosity...
...heavy-handed and obvious themes, it has both unique twists--how Idgy disposes of the body of Ruth's husband--and hilarious scenes, such as when the transformed nineties-woman Evelyn impulsively rams the car of two sweet young thangs who have stolen her parking space at the shoppin' mall: "I may be slower, but I'm older and have more insurance," she yells triumphantly...