On the national stage, the musical revue “Smokey Joe’s Cafe” won a 1995 Grammy while being nominated for seven different Tony Awards in the year of its premiere. And since its final performance in January 2000, it has held the title of the longest running musical revue in Broadway history.

On the local stage — at Port Orchard’s Western Washington Center for the Arts — its popularity is still exhibited to this day.

Following WWCA’s well-received 2005 production, the show is back by popular demand and it’s striking up the band for the debut, at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 10. The show will run through Sept. 9 — tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, $10 for youth and military.

For a fund-raising price of $50 per person, WWCA will be hosting two special dinner shows — Aug. 11 and 25 — catered by Purple Fig Catering.

For more information on those, visit www.wwca.us or call (360) 769-7469.

For more information about the musical, read on.

“We did the show two years ago, and it sold out just about every time,” said musical director Bruce Ewen. “There’s a lot of shows I could get tired of, especially if I had to do them again, but not this one.”

“Smokey Joe’s Cafe” is a celebration and a commemoration of the music of American pop song writing giants Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.

For anyone scratching their head, Leiber and Stoller were the collective pen behind many 1950s-era classics like “Yakety Yak” made famous by the Coasters and “Jailhouse Rock,” “Lovin’ You” and “Hound Dog” from Elvis Presley.

They also wrote for The Drifters and Ben E. King, and later the Clovers (“Love Potion No. 9”).

“Smokey Joe’s Cafe” is a collection of all of the above and more, featuring the stylings of rock ‘n’ roll, rhythm and blues and bits of gospel and comedy, Ewen said.

“There’s not really a plot, not really even any dialogue,” Ewen said. “It’s the beauty of Leiber and Stoller, man … it’s wall to wall music.”

Backing up the exquisitely vocal WWCA cast, members Shane Hall and Terrell Henderson will be rocking and rolling out live guitar and saxophone while Ewen holds steady on the keys with synchronized drums and bass.

“This room is not big enough for live drums,” Ewen said.

However the WWCA stage in the 78-seat theater is just about the perfect size for the wide array of choreography which this show calls for — from the Motown R&B step line to the all-out show tune bandstand style.

“It’s a real high energy show,” Ewen said.