Million Dollar Quartet
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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, Carl Perkins and newcomer Jerry Lee Lewis.
- Opened
- 2010
- Performances
- 489
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Modern
Productions2 on Broadway
| 2010 | Nederlander Theatre Original. April 11, 2010 · Eric Schaeffer | 489 performances |
| 2011 | Noël Coward Theatre Original. |
Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.
Recordings 2 albums held
Licensing 1 entry
| US | Theatrical Rights Worldwide | not stated by this source |
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4 passages naming Million Dollar Quartet, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The session wasn’t discovered until years later, but when it was, it was dubbed “The Million Dollar Quartet,” despite the fact that Cash had departed the studio before producer Sam Phillips could roll tape. book:broadway-musicals-show-by-show-seventh-edition-stanley-green-cary-ginell#p358
Shows Set in the South: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Driving Miss Daisy Free Man of Color, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, The Scottsboro Boys. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-viagas-robert-7th-annual-ed#p13
Million Dollar Quartet ends its Broadway run after 489 performances, but six weeks later it transfers to Off Broadway's New World Stages ten blocks away and continues its run alongside other expatriate Broadway shows, Avenue Qand Rent. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2011-to-may-2012-viagas-robert-8th-annual-ed#p10
Shows Set in the South: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Driving Miss Daisy, Free Man of Color, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet, The Scottsboro Boys. book:the-playbill-broadway-yearbook-june-2010-to-may-2011-edited-by-robert-viagas-7th#p13
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