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Nov. 6—PEMBROKE — Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley are together again to celebrate the holidays in the "Million Dollar Quartet Christmas." The heartwarming holiday ...
Million Dollar Quartet is a jukebox musical with a book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux.It dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet recording session of December 4, 1956, among early rock and roll/country stars who recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, which are Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis.
Escott co-wrote the 2010 musical theater production Million Dollar Quartet, which received three Tony nominations, [8] [9] [10] and in 2020 wrote a sequel, Million Dollar Quartet Christmas. He was also part of the writing/producing team adapting the original show for CMT/Viacom for broadcast in 2017.
The stage musical Million Dollar Quartet, with a book by Floyd Mutrux and Colin Escott, dramatizes the Million Dollar Quartet session. It premiered at Florida's Seaside Music Theatre and was then staged at Village Theatre in Issaquah, Washington (a Seattle suburb) in 2007, [16] breaking box office records.
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Review: On Dec. 4, 1956 coincidence put Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins in a studio. 'Quartet' gives life to late greats.
The theatre closed for the 2020 season amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and reopened in the fall of 2021 with an encore of its 2018 production of Mamma Mia!, followed by the 30th annual production of A Christmas Carol. The 2024 musical season will include Fiddler on the Roof, Frozen, Tootsie, Million Dollar Quartet, and Titanic. [13]
Presley was recorded performing the song during the Million Dollar Quartet session on December 4, 1956. On February 24, 1957, Presley again recorded the song, this time for RCA. This version also went unreleased until it appeared on the 1965 album Elvis for Everyone . [ 2 ]