Tony Award-Winning Broadway Show Coming to Young Auditorium

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Date: February 20, 2015

Tony® Award-Winning Broadway Show Coming to Young Auditorium

WHITEWATER – Young Auditorium is proud to present the international Tony® Award-winning musical, Million Dollar Quartet on Monday, March 2 at 7:30 p.m. Million Dollar Quartet is the high voltage Broadway musical inspired by the phenomenal true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. The show is entering its fourth smash year on the road and will play in over 60 cities in the next year. The auditorium is located at 930 West Main Street in Whitewater (on the UW-Whitewater campus). Ticket prices for the show range $29.50-$49.50.

The show’s setting is a Tuesday night in December shortly before the holidays in 1956. The four legendary singers are gathered at the Sun Records studio in Memphis, Tennessee, where they had launched their careers. Word soon leaked out of an impromptu jam session between them. A newspaper reporter who was there wrote, “This quartet could sell a million.” Soon, they were dubbed the “Million Dollar Quartet.” This was their only performance together; a cultural flashpoint that caught rock n’ roll at the moment of creation.

The musical brings the heart and soul of that legendary night to life with an irresistible tale of -more- excitement and passion, featuring 21 timeless hits including Blue Suede Shoes, Sixteen Tons, Great Balls of Fire, I Walk the Line, Fever, Hound Dog, and more. The show is directed by Eric Schaeffer and features a book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux.

When the Broadway production opened in April 2010, critics and audiences leapt to their feet in unanimous praise. The New York Times called the show, “a buoyant new musical that whips the crowd into a frenzy,” New York Magazine labeled it, “a dazzling raucous spectacle that sounds like a million bucks,” and NY1 called it, “90 minutes of platinum grade entertainment.” The musical continued its successful New York engagement at New World Stages through June 2012.

The longest-running musical production in Chicago’s history, Million Dollar Quartet opened in 2008 and continues to perform to packed houses at the Apollo Theatre. In 2011, the West End production played at the Noël Coward Theatre in London, and a Las Vegas production began performances at Harrah’s Showroom in Las Vegas in February 2013.

Portraying the music icons are Gabe Bowling as Carl Perkins, Colte Julian as Jerry Lee Lewis, Scott Moreau as Johnny Cash and Jacob Rowley as Elvis Presley. Bryan Langlitz plays the “Father of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Sam Phillips. The cast also features Laura Obenauf as Dyanne, and musicians Patrick Morrow (Fluke, drums) and Chuck Zayas (Jay Perkins, bass). Rounding out the company are: Alyson Bloom, Andrew Frace, James Scheider, Skye Scott, David Sonneborn, and Bradley Waters.

The Young Auditorium serves as a presenting organization for the performing arts and as an educational and cultural center enriching the lives of regional communities, offering a full season of world-class performing arts presentations. Tickets for any show can be purchased online, by calling the Box Office at (262) 472-2222, or in person. The Greenhill Center of the Arts Box Office is located inside the UW-Whitewater Center of the Arts building near Barnett Theatre on the UW-Whitewater Campus (930 West Main Street in Whitewater). The Young Auditorium is adjacent to this building, and parking is always free at the venue. To learn more, visit www.uww.edu/YoungAuditorium or follow at www.Facebook.com/Young.Aud.