revue

His 1950s live music revues, at the El Monte Legion Stadium, were the first integrated dance concerts in California.

Called CineVita, the 15,000 square-foot double-decker tent is the new home of the theatrical production company For the Record, which for the past 15 years has staged live musical revues of beloved film soundtracks.

Rather than assemble a soup-to-nuts tale hamstrung by chronology, he shrewdly offers up her story as an all-star revue about her ascent.

But the closing of her beloved revue is coming at the worst possible moment for Shelly as she stares down the end of her fifties.

New York Times critic Stanley Kauffmann called her performance in the 1966 “It’s a Bird... It’s a Plane... It’s Superman” “pure imp”: “I wish she were in every musical and revue.”