![]() Along the way, the four musicians sing and play nearly two dozen songs, including their own hits and other then-contemporary material. Presley is hoping to help persuade Phillips to take that offer. Phillips is hoping to re-sign Cash, while also pondering an offer to join RCA. Cash is looking for a way to tell Phillips that he's leaving Sun for a major label. Lewis is cocky and egotistical, bursting with the arrogance that will make him a star within a year. ![]() In their telling, Perkins seethes with anger at having missed his shot at stardom when a car crash prevented him from singing his song "Blue Suede Shoes" on national television and Presley scored a hit with it instead. Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, in their book for the 2010 Broadway musical Million Dollar Quartet, use the recording session to encapsulate various events in the lives of those present. A bootleg of the session was dubbed The Million Dollar Quartet eventually the album was given a legitimate release. The four artists posed for a photograph, and three of them ( Cash went home early) played as Phillips let the tapes roll. During the session, Johnny Cash, then also a Sun artist and a country star, dropped by, as did Elvis Presley, whose Sun contract Phillips had sold to RCA Victor, which had made Presley a major pop star. The originals (Elvis Presley & Diane, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Johny Cash and Sam Phillips of Sun Records) this Amazing Young Troop of Talented Actors depicted, be it in spirit or in the flesh would have been amazed and awe struck at their skill and talent portraying this moment in time and our own, "Made In American Music.On December 4, 1956, Carl Perkins held a recording session at the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, and producer and label head Sam Phillips brought in a new, unknown signee to Sun, Jerry Lee Lewis, to play piano. ![]() The story line was perfect, music dead-on, staging and set totally 5 Star and sound production outstanding. Memories renewed, joy restored and the best young actors ever keeping the joy of our music history alive. ![]() "This show is tops and worth every moment spent reliving times spent over 55 years back with these Super Stars. You can expect to hear the likes of Hound Dog, Walk the Line, Matchbox, Blue Suede Shoes, Real Wild Child along with plenty more.īook tickets now for a truly memorable night of solid entertainment like never seen before! Highlighting on that special and highly influential night, the cast of Million Dollar Quartet perform over 20 of the songs created from that one night. The idea for the Broadway show has been influenced by the rare time in history where Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins collaborated together in Sun Records Studios. If you love the Rock 'n' Roll era then be sure to head on down to your nearest theatre this coming year and let Million Dollar Quartet take you back in time to where it all took place in Memphis, Tennessee. Million Dollar Quartet has had enormous success across the globe, with the musical reaching the biggest theatre stages across the West End in the UK, Canada, Las Vegas and Broadway and it continues to now grace the stages of North America on it's 2020 tour dates! The energetic musical has been a sensational hit and it's no wonder as it brings to life the music of four of Rock 'n' Roll's favorite icons in a breathtaking and entertaining production!
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