What happened to the Original New York Doo-Wopp Show at Radio City Music Hall after 22 years?
Sadly, the costs of doing the show we wanted to always do got pretty high, and we had to be very profitable for the Music Hall. I wanted to keep the ticket prices very affordable since I knew my audience — I had 8,000 names on our mailing list — and the majority of them were grown up, working people who were in love with our show. I didn’t want to squeeze them. Plus, our Original New York Doo-Wopp show was a sell out for years, and eventually others jumped on the bandwagon so “doo-wopp” shows started popping up everywhere. Ours was a full tilt theatrical production where I had set the bar high with regard to production, authenticity, quality and value. It was becoming clear that it would be difficult to produce the profits that were required so we faded away successfully. A few years later, PBS exposed the genre to a mass audience. I like to think that series was influenced/inspired by us. Certainly many of the artists, all who I came to love and respect, received plenty of attention
