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All Shook Up

June 22 - July 2

Music and Lyrics by varied artists
Book by Joe DiPietro
Based on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night comedy and musical hits of Elvis Presley

So, tell me about the second show of your season!

All Shook Up, which appeared on Broadway in 2005, is called a jukebox musical.  It was inspired by Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night”, and uses 25 hit songs recorded by Elvis Presley.

Right…isn’t that kind of an entertainment stretch?

Not if you remember that The Bard wrote comedies with light-hearted characters, who fall in love with the wrong people, and may include gender switching and mistaken identities to accomplish a happy ending.

“The story is all new, the hits are all Elvis.” This show is not a tribute to Elvis Presley, the “King of Rock and Roll”, nor is it his life story. It is writer/lyricist Joe DiPietro, who brings a handsome guitar-playing stranger to a small Midwestern town, stirring up the lives of the locals. You’ll hear “Love Me Tender” and “Heartbreak Hotel”, “Hound Dog” and “Blue Suede Shoes”, “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Jailhouse Rock”, and of course, the title song “All Shook Up”. Like Shakespeare’s play, characters long for a different life, struggle with romance, and Presley’s popular story-telling songs enhance the fun, singing, and dancing.

Elvis Presley (1935-1977) was born a poor boy in Mississippi, and learned to sing and play gospel and country music at an early age. His career began in 1954 when his family moved to Memphis and he connected with Sam Phillips of Sun Records and agent Colonel Tom Parker. With his uninhibited singing style and appealing good looks, he landed a contract with record giant RCA Victor, and his best-selling records and appearances on national television made him a star. The twenty-year span of Presley’s work gave him what many believe to be the most successful music career of all time.  

Be prepared to do some toe-tapping, hand-clapping, and singing along. You’ll know these songs or wish you did!

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