"The Doo Wop Project"

"The Doo Wop Project": Broadway Stars Trace Evolution of Doo-Wop

Stars of Broadway's "Jersey Boys", "Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" and "Motown: The Musical" gather for a special concert celebrating the genre that made all those shows possible, "The Doo Wop Project". The show begins where doo-wop has its origins -- on the street corners of American cities right after World War II. Young men would gather to sing a cappella, mimicking the sounds of instruments with nonsense words: the bass was "bom-bom-bom", the guitar was "shang-a-lang" and the brass riffs were "doooo-wop-wop". These impromptu concerts gave rise to groups like the Crests, Belmonts and Flamingos. Later, doo-wop would influence everything and everyone from the Motown sound to Micheal Jackson and Amy Winehouse. Now "The Doo Wop Project" tells the entire so-crazy-it-can-only-be-true tale through song at Queensborough Performing Arts Center.