All Shook Up
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In a small Midwestern town in the 1950s, a mysterious leather-jacketed roustabout named Chad rides in on his motorcycle and shakes up the repressed community with his music and rebellious attitude. Loosely inspired by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the story follows multiple townspeople — including mechanic Natalie, who disguises herself as a man to get close to Chad — as they discover love, identity, and self-expressi…
- Opened
- 2005
- Performances
- 213
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions1 on Broadway
| 2005 | Palace Theatre Original. March 24, 2005 · Christopher Ashley | 213 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
Licensing 1 entry
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5 passages naming All Shook Up, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
A similar theme cropped up in the 2005 Broadway musical All Shook Up. book:the-complete-book-of-1990s-broadway-musicals-dan-dietz-paxton-mcnallie-2016-rowm#p345
All Shook Up did better, applying songs recorded by Elvis Presley to an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night – it ran for 213 performances. book:a-history-of-the-american-musical-theatre-no-business-like-nathaniel-hurwitz-tay#p293
All Shook Up ran only 213 performances, but Jackson was noted as one of Broadway’s most handsome and muscular leading men. book:b007l4owcu-ebok-peter-filichia#p332
Just prior to that, Vanessa Williams and Linda Eder had played Palace concert engagements, hearkening back to the diva concert acts of the 1960s and 1970s. Of course nothing was as much of a throwback as Liza’s at the Palace .... in 2008 . book:untold-stories-of-broadway-volume-2-part-1-the-jennifer-tepper#p68
Nearly thirty years after his death, Elvis even spawned his own musical: All Shook Up, which flopped on Broadway in a big way in 2005. book:today-in-history-musicals-today-in-history-stollenwerk-joe-1973-today-in-history#p16
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