Shortly after Jersey favorites
Franke & the Knockouts broke up
in 1986, their former label head
Jimmy Ienner called front man
and main songwriter Franke Pre-
vite and said, “I’ve got something
for you that’s going to change
your life.” An Oscar, a five-time
diamond record and a beautiful
home at the Jersey Shore later,
Previte sure has had the time of his
life with his association with the
1987 film, “Dirty Dancing” and its
more recent Broadway stage ad-
aptation. For the past five years,
life is even better in a longtime
personal and professional relation-
ship with Lisa Sherman, the Jersey
Shore-raised star of such Broad-
way revivals as “West Side Story”
and “Evita.”
The couple has created a new
show entitled “Calling All Divas,” a
story-oriented adaptation of their
“Decades of Divas” revue, which,
in turn, was culled from Sherman’s
one-woman show, “Songbird.” The
musical tale of four women who
form a singing group, The Un4get-
tables, after they audition for the
Listen to “(I’ve Had) The Time Of My Life” by Franke & The Knockouts
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