Oh Boy! What a Show! Million Dollar Quartet, with book by Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux, gives us the masters: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, performing their best-known songs at the one actual recording session at Sun Records with all four of them present in 1956. It's a great Rock and Roll concert, and this cast lives up to the originals-- super guitarist Robert Britton Lyons as Perkins, Lance Guest (in black) with Cash's bass rumble, the spectacular Levi Kreis going nuts on the ivories as Lewis, and the Elvis of Eddie Clendening, who brings the beautiful, sexy Elizabeth Stanley in as his girlfriend, giving the group on stage the needed female voice.
Hunter Foster, in a non-singing role as Sam Phillips, head of Sun, holds it all together.
With fine period costumes by Jane Greenwood, Eric Schaeffer has staged the show with action, energy and taste, and he gives it all a sweet good nature. Aided and abetted by the lively Larry Lelli on drums and Corey Kaiser on bass, this is the real essence of Rock and Roll, and it kept me jumpin' in my seat.
