Performance

VenueWycombe Swan
Other spaces: Old Town Hall, Oak Room
TownHigh Wycombe
CountyBuckinghamshire
From9th October 2017
To14th October 2017
What is currently on at Wycombe Swan (V749)

Million Dollar Quartet

Million Dollar QuartetT0516594004
The award-winning musical that tells the electrifying story of the night in 1956 when Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis came together to make music and ended up making history. It is inspired by the actual event that took place on 4 December 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis and features over 20 of the greatest rock 'n' roll, gospel, R&B and country hits ever written including: Blue Suede Shoes, I Walk The Line, Fever, Great Balls of Fire, Hound Dog, Folsom Prison Blues and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On. The legendary meeting was masterminded by Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips, who discovered all four of the musicians, and brought Elvis Presley (and his then girlfriend) back to the recording studio that launched him to stardom. Together with Sun Records' fast-rising new superstar Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, who was still chasing his next big hit after writing and recording Blue Suede Shoes, the fourth member of this impromptu "quartet" was Phillips' latest signing, Jerry Lee Lewis. Million Dollar Quartet is a story of fame, friendship, discovery, divided loyalties, professional jealousy and incredible music as four of the music industry's most extraordinary talents, all in their creative prime, made music together for the first and only time in their careers.
Book by Colin Escott
Book by Floyd Mutrux
Author Colin Escott
Author Floyd Mutrux


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Company

Producer Simon Friend
Producer Mark Goucher
Director Ian Talbot
Design David Farley
Lighting David Howe
Sound Ben Harrison
Performer Martin Kemp (Sam Phillips - High Wycombe / Inverness / Edinburgh / Ipswich / Chichester)
Performer Peter Duncan (Sam Phillips - York / Hornchurch / Cheltenham / Eastbourne / Poole)
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