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All Shook Up

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
Music: Elvis Presley (jukebox)Lyrics: VariousBook: Joe DiPietro

Productions1 on Broadway

2005 Palace Theatre Original. March 24, 2005 · Christopher Ashley 213 performances

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Licensing 1 entry

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In the literature5 passages

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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