From The Crimson White:
When the academic year is done and the curtain closes on the semester’s last performance in Galloway or Allen Bales theatre, most of the University’s student actors go home. Some, though, who auditioned and were cast before the school year ended, are preparing to begin rehearsals for the UA SummerTide Theatre, the professional summer theatre program of the University of Alabama.
This year, the SummerTide theatre group will perform “Smokey Joe’s Cafe: The Songs of Leiber and Stoller.” Performed in revue-style and featuring popular songs such as “There Goes My Baby,” “Love Potion #9,” “Jailhouse Rock” and “Yakety Yak,” the performance incorporates the hit music of the 1940s and 1950s.