BABY IT'S YOU
Written by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux
Directed by Floyd Mutrux

November 6 – December 13, 2009

A world premiere musical!
 

Wrapped in the sensational songs of the 60s, BABY IT'S YOU! is the new musical about the groundbreaking girl group, The Shirelles and Florence Greenberg, the New Jersey housewife who discovered them. With the help of African-American songwriter, producer Luther Dixon, Florence took on a male dominated industry and revolutionized pop music. Her company, Scepter Records, created the most important songs in the golden era of rock 'n roll, from artists including The Isley Brothers, The Kingsmen, Chuck Jackson and Dionne Warwick.
 

Creative Team

Colin Escott (Co-Writer) was born in England and currently lives near Nashville, Tennessee. He collaborated with Floyd Mutrux on Million Dollar Quartet (running in Chicago since September 2008, and heading for Broadway) and other American Pop Anthology musicals currently in preparation. He received a Grammy for writing and producing “The Complete Hank Williams.” He also wrote the BBC series “Lost Highway—The Story of Country Music” and the PBS/BBC documentary “Hank Williams—Honky Tonk Blues.”  Recently, he scripted the PBS show “Let Freedom Sing—The Music of the Civil Rights Movement.”  He is a consultant to Time Life Music in Washington, D.C.

Floyd Mutrux (Co-Writer / Director) apprenticed at the Alley Theater in Houston, Second City, Chicago, studied theater in New York for five years while working at Second City, and attending Columbia University, returned to Los Angeles, created the idea for, wrote, directed, or produced fifty plus films in the last twenty-five years (floydmutrux.com), American Hot Wax (multiple Best Picture and Best Director, Village Voice, etc.), Scarecrow, (best film, Cannes), Hollywood Knights, Urban Cowboy, The Untouchables, American Me, Hillside Strangler, Freebie and the Bean, Up in Smoke, Dick Tracy, etc... along with Colin Escott, has developed a series of rock 'n' roll driven bios for the stage (The Fat Man Sings, Alan Freed Show, Boy From NYC, Lonesome Town with John Kaye, etc.) under the overall title, American Pop Anthology. First show, Million Dollar Quartet, had sold out runs in Florida and Seattle, and now breaking records in Chicago, reviewed as the best rock 'n' roll musical ever made. In development at four studios, Dancing with Myself, Teenage Idol, Brother D (with Ice Cube), Inside Out (Donner Co.), and with Colin Escott, a rock n' roll Field of Dreams, called Moon Over Memphis.

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