`Leader of the Pack' bringing doo-wop back at the Shubert

`Leader of the Pack' bringing doo-wop back at the Shubert

Before the guitar, there was the saxophone. Before the Beatles and white rock, there was doo wop -- a slower, gentler, yet more attitudinal, more harmonic, O.K., yes, a sound with more black dimensions. Mel Carter. The Platters. The Temptations. Phil Spector's The Ronettes and The Crystals.

Does this sound rev you up? "Leader of the Pack," a showcase for the songs of Ellie Greenwich, at the Shubert Theater is a return to that part of those glory years when women were looking for an echo too. The all-song evening complete with a seven man orchestra diddy bops on through April 29.

A curvaceous Mary Wilson, …