The Pasadena Playhouse just opened it's newest musical, Baby It's You, marking the end of a series celebrating remarkable women. A determined Jewish housewife from a New Jersey suburb decided to invade the male domain of popular music; and there begins the story of Florence Greenberg who discovered a groundbreaking 'girl group' called the Shirelles. Talents who literally define the sound of the second half of the last century, Florence made careers instead of one-hit wonders. As you sit in the audience one is taken back to that marvelous era, the 60's, played out against Cold War confrontations, Korean War and rumblings of civil unrest. Let me tell you again, Baby It's You!Monday, November 16, 2009
Baby It's You
The Pasadena Playhouse just opened it's newest musical, Baby It's You, marking the end of a series celebrating remarkable women. A determined Jewish housewife from a New Jersey suburb decided to invade the male domain of popular music; and there begins the story of Florence Greenberg who discovered a groundbreaking 'girl group' called the Shirelles. Talents who literally define the sound of the second half of the last century, Florence made careers instead of one-hit wonders. As you sit in the audience one is taken back to that marvelous era, the 60's, played out against Cold War confrontations, Korean War and rumblings of civil unrest. Let me tell you again, Baby It's You!
