Million Dollar Quartet (musical)
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| Music | Various Arranged by Chuck Mead |
| Lyrics | Various |
| Book | Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott |
| Productions | 2006 Florida 2007 Washington 2008 Chicago 2010 Broadway 2011 West End 2011 Off-Broadway 2011 U.S. tour 2016 Westchester Broadway Theatre |
Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical written by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott. It dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956, among early Rock and roll stars Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis. The musical opened on Broadway in 2010, after several tryouts and regional productions, and spawned a 2011 West End production.
The musical premiered at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre, running from November 9 to December 4, 2006, and was then staged at the Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington in September through October 2007, and Everett, Washington, in January 2008, breaking box office records.
The musical had a limited run at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, opening on September 27, 2008. Mutrux co-directed the Chicago production with Eric D. Schaeffer, Artistic Director of Virginia's Signature Theatre. The show transferred to Chicago's Apollo Theater where it opened on October 31, 2008. It celebrated its 2500th performance on September 20, 2014., The show closed on January 17 and ranked as the third-longest running show, in terms of calendar span, in Chicago Theatre history (behind Co-Ed Prison Sluts and Shear Madness).
The cast featured David Lago as Elvis Presley, Gabe Bowling as Carl Perkins, Sean Sullivan as Johnny Cash, and Lance Lipinsky as Jerry Lee Lewis.
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