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Million Dollar Quartet (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Million Dollar Quartet

Shows · Million Dollar Quartet

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
Music: Various (jukebox)Lyrics: Various (jukebox)Book: Colin Escott and Floyd Mutrux

Productions1 on Broadway

2010 Nederlander Theatre Original. April 11, 2010 · Eric Schaeffer 489 performances

Every Broadway staging held in broadway-data, sourced to IBDB. West End runs are not yet held.

Licensing 1 entry

US Theatrical Rights Worldwide not stated by this source

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In the literature4 passages

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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