Bill Ward as Sam Phillips: Ben Goddard, Derek Hagen, Robert Britton Lyons and Michael Malarkey will play renowned music stars Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley. Marilyn Evans, Presley's girlfriend in 1956, will in addition feature within the story and is to be played by Francesca Jackson.
Motivated from the true event, which took place upon 4th December 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis, this happy and also absorbing musical is a tale connected with celebrity, friendship, innovation, split loyalties, professional envy and extraordinary music and songs as four of the music industry's most outstanding talents, all in their creative prime, made music collectively for the first and only time in their careers.
The renowned gathering had been masterminded by Sun Records' founder Sam Phillips, who uncovered all four of the musicians, and brought Elvis Presley (and his then girlfriend) back to the recording studio that launched him to fame and fortune. Along with Sun Records' fast-rising new superstar Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins, who was still chasing his next big hit after writing as well as recording Blue Suede Shoes, the fourth person in this impromptu 'quartet' was Phillips' latest signing, Jerry Lee Lewis.
MILLION DOLLAR QUARTET features over 20 classic hits from a golden era of music including: Blue Suede Shoes, Folsom Prison Blues, Fever, Memories Are Made Of This, That's All Right, Down Because of the Riverside, Sixteen Tons, (There Will Be) Peace During the Valley, I Walk The Line, I Hear You Knocking, Great Balls Off Fire, Hound Dog, Riders In the Sky, See You Later Alligator and Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.
Noel Coward Theatre: Initially known as the New Theatre, then The Albery, The Noel Coward Theatre was built by Sir Charles and Mary Wyndham and opened up on 12th March 1903. In 1915 Dion Boucicault presented a Christmas revival of J M Barrie's Peter Pan, which, due to its level of popularity was duplicated every year right up until 1919. In addition , it staged several flourishing productions by various other famous writers including Somerset Maugham, A A Milne, Noel Coward, Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, T S Eliot and Tennessee Williams. The sixties were dominated by Lionel Bart's Oliver! which ran for 2618 performances.
A host of famous names have made an appearance on-stage at the theatre including Sir John Gielgud, Sybil Thorndike, Sir Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and many more. In 1973 the New Theatre was renamed the Albery in tribute to the late Sir Bronson Albery who had presided over its fortunes for quite some time. The Noel Coward Theatre has witnessed productions as varied as Somerset Maugham's The Constant Wife, Children of a Lesser God by Mark Medoff, Tom Stoppard's Travesties and Willy Russell's Blood Brothers. During 2011 Million Dollar Quartet will be on the stage.
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Do you want to enjoy a night out at a London Theatre, then book tickets to go and see Million Dollar Quartet which is at the Noel Coward Theatre London from February 2011.
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